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July 1st, @08:34PM
| [Spam] Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife
For anyone who wonders what would happen were a person to
answer every spam and pop-up ad they received on their PC,
McAfee did a study where 50 volunteers from around the world
did just that for a month, starting on April Fool's day:
»www.networkworld.com/news/2008/0···?hpg1=bn
They provided the volunteers with a PC and a fictitious email
address, one end result of the study being those PCs became
so bogged down with spyware as to be nearly unuseable.
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Doctor Olds
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July 1st, @09:19PM
| I wonder at what point the Malware Authors will make their programs clean up/disable competing Malware so that they can get usable cycles from the hijacked PCs. Otherwise, the PC would be a near useless tool in that state of take over. Would that not be a good one? 
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SnowyOne
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| said by Doctor Olds  :I wonder at what point the Malware Authors will make their programs clean up/disable competing Malware... That's a good question.
Most higher end bots already clean up their new acquisitions.
It's only a matter of time before the low end malware start to practice self defense on a large scale. |
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