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Karl Bode
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Something that impresses me about both Eric Howes and Ben Edelmen is they focus on the technical solution, and they follow the money trail to the source.

People spend hours with their HT logs, and installing 75,000 cleaners, but they stop there. Users complain about outfits like WhenU & Claria, but they don't complain about the dozens of "legit" companies that fund them.

There's a ridiculous circle going on where an ISP is paid by you, gives WhenU that money to infect your machine, then sells you spyware/adware removal software that doesn't clean adware they push. You then applaud your ISP for being nice.

»www.benedelman.org/spyware/whenu···rtisers/

»WhenU Enters the Anti-Spyware Market

»Lop.com Goes to the FTC

IMHO there needs to be much more of this type of attention so that funding these operations becomes an unpopular PR move.
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