loserhead
3 Billion Chinese People Can Be Wrong
join:2004-01-01
Ellijay, GA | noob problem
it's like all you have to do is "say" that you will help someone's pc and they will blindly agree to whatever EULA you put in front of them.
m glad that the govt is doing something about this.
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Levi Aho
@rnktel.ne
| Sure, the fact that they bought spyware removeal tools from a popup ad indicated their inexperiance, but the isn't solely a newbie problem. You see, the ads to sell the faulty spyware removal tools are created by adware. If you read the Yahoo article they link too, you'd know that this first round of adware was drive by installed from some banner ads. My mother's Windows box is currently infected by this sort of software. (It's some adware that advertises all sorts of things. Sometimes it advertises anti spyware software.) I consider myself a hacker (not a cracker BTW), but I've had a hard time with this particular one. Don't know if it's related to this guy's activities or not.
Oh, and just in case you got your hopes up, this dosn't mean the government is taking spy/ad/malware seriously. This is a *civil* suit filed by the FTC. If they where serious, the FBI CyberCrime Division would get off it's collective behind and file some *criminal* charges. But no, they're off hunting teenagers with some craking skills and/or copyright violators or something. (BTW, I didn't say pirates because equating copyright violation with piracy is slander of the hightest order.) |
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HAL9Kilo
join:2004-10-27
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1 edit | hoi!
like u i know something about hacking but i wont call myselfe a hacker
- maybe a n00bie ^^
the way sanford spread that lame mass exploit is really pissing me off.
after i found that 0.bat in my system32 folder i
connected 2 the given ip and found myselfe on that
fucking adserver.
the funny thing about this ftp-account sanford uses
to transfer his stuff is that it has permission 2 browse
any folder of that server - ok u may not write
but in one word - thats a big security hole - u could
even download important config- or logfiles!
and thats the point i dont get - by all means -
sanford hacked me - sanford hacked u - so why not hack back?
i really wonder why that server is still up - there r much
exploits for his ftp-client for example.
i dont want to make ppl do something illegal!
i just wonder... |
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