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Spyware Masquerading as Spyware Removal Software
Cocooner writes "News.com is reporting that some of the anti-spyware/adware software out there is doing more harm than good by acting as double agents. One example is a software package named SpyBan (google cache since the original site has been removed), which happened to be hosted by download.com, accused of installing Look2Me, which monitors and reports web surfing habits. SpyBan was downloaded over 44000 times before it was pulled. How 'low' can they go?"
props to GNAA
Does Michael J like to suck the fine ass titties of his sister Janet?
how gay are you.
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This is news? Things that we've known about since the dawn of Windows is news?
So, like it's a double agent or something?
/me fires self
Sorry couldn't help it..
First MyDoom now this. I bet it reported all hits on Linux to SCO.
Does anyone speak jive?
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
By the way, what the fuck happened to Slashdot? This used to be a site for geeks. Now we've got stupid little girls like 703985 who know a tiny bit of HTML and come here to post their tripe? Fuck this shit. Slashdot is dead and buried.
Dear Sir,
I am a citizen of Zaire, son of the late former president of Zaire
(mobutu sese seko)1 since the death of my late father some years ago I have
been residing in Nigeria on temporary political asylum. On my arrival
in Nigeria after my late father's burial, I came into Nigeria with a
diplomatic packaged consignment containing the sum $31,540,000.00 (thirty
one million, five hundred and forty thousand United States dollars)
which I got from part of the money my late father made through diamonds
sales when he was the president of Zaire for about 32 years.precisely,
Since my arrival with the diplomatic packaged consignment it has been
safely kept with a security company here in Nigeria moreover, I do not
want to invest this money in any part of Africa due to the constant
political instability in Africa. My plan is to use this money to invest in
a profitable business in any part of the world apart from Africa, also
to purchase a residential accommodation. I will come over and settle
there with my family.
Hence, I am soliciting for your assistance as my foreign partner to
receive this money on my behalf on arrival abroad and to keep it in a safe
place pending my arrival to join you up. Upon the receipt of your
acceptance to my proposal, I can immediately arrange for the money to leave
Nigeria in your favour (i.e. as the beneficiary) for onward movement to
where I have connection in Europe or Nothern (sic) America with the
assistance of a security company , then you will assist me to receive it
over there as my foreign partner.
Please if you are willing to assist me, do send in your reply
immediately by above e-mail based on the following:-
(1) What percentage of this amount do you intend to charge for your
assistance, please feel free to express your mind,
(2) Include your private telephone and fax numbers to enhance the
confidentiality, which this business demands.
I shall inform you with next line of action as soon as I receive your
positive response. 10% of the total money will be set aside for any
extra expenses incurred in the course of this transaction. Your urgent
reponse (sic) throgh (sic) my e-mail shall be highly appreciated.
Attach is the picture of the money for your perusal
YOU CAN REPLY ME THROUGH MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS BEFORE STARTING THE TRANSACTION.
charlay_real@yahoo.co.uk
Best regards.
Mobutu lanson
*shrugs* I guess this must be a windows problem.
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Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Why the hate? Where is all this anger coming from? I don't care what your political affiliation is, until someone makes it apparent that they intend to march millions of oppressed minorities into a gas chamber, you really oughta ease off on the comparisons...
Think outside the... Hey, where'd the friggin' box go?
Geeks don't get laid because they are completely selfish and anti-social. I'll lay it out:
1.) They're selfish. This means that whatever benefits them, they want. And they will justify it to no end. Example--MP3 downloads magically become a culture movement against the RIAA, not a direct ripping-off of real humans who rented a studio and recorded the music to make a living. People get used to the convenience of MP3 downloading and invest justifications for it so their guilt goes away. This has led to entire subcultures on the net in which warez is okay, mp3s are okay, and hacking is okay.
2.) They think their mindset is a majority mindset somehow more valid than anyone else's. Most normal people who get used to something have no problems with other people doing it differently. Nerds, however, feel whatever they do, everyone else must do the exact same way, or it is no good. Example--XFree86 cut-and-paste. Witness endless Slashdotters write entire essays explaining why the X11 cut-and-paste scheme is somehow better than the cut-and-paste scheme used by 95+ percent of computer users, and if others use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, they are using a "braindead" scheme. Yes, someone actually felt strongly enough about a cut-and-paste scheme to label it that. Insane.
3.) They think being an encyclopedia is appealing. This means they don't know any other way to impress someone, so they will throw facts at them. Most normal people relate emotionally to others. But nerds have often spent a lot of time in non-social environments, and so emotions aren't something that are felt, but thought about. So, when they actually become involved in a social environment, they don't know any other way to impress or converse but to exchange random facts and argue about things other people don't care about. Example--most any thread on Slashdot in which an argument takes place. "So-and-so happens this way." "Actually, it happens this way." "But since version 0.11.4p2, it has done this to do this." "Only on the OS X port."
4.) They take the side that best benefits them--hypocrisy at its worst. Nerds will attempt to maintain some sort of moral stance against Microsoft, yet embrace DDOS attacks against spammers and SCO websites. Witness all the Slashdotters posting links to the SCO website with tongue-in-cheek messages to "keep refreshing." These posts get modded up. But then when SCO mentions the attacks in the press, suddenly nobody on Slashdot supports it, because they're above that, right? Another example--IBM, the bastion of corporate greed and evil in the 80s, is suddenly a-okay with nerds because they've gone with Linux after their OS/2 line died out. Anyone who would bother to read up on IBM's corporatehistory would shudder at this.
5.) Of course, this hypocrisy leads into propoganda. Anything Microsoft does is evil and has a self-serving agenda. Anything a Linux company does is great for the community and can be justified. So, if Microsoft's Windows is selling in China, and the Chinese government that silences dissidents happens to be using Windows, Slashdot will report a headline entitled, "Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China." This, of course, ignores the fact that China has its own Linux distribution, and we won't see a "Open Source Violates Human Rights in China" any time soon. And with all these recent KDE 3.2 articles, nobody's mentioning that KDE removed the Taiwan flag just so they could be adopted by the Chinese government. But, like I said--Microsoft is evil, anything Linux is good!
6.) Condescension. This means that if your opinion is different, you will be insulted and downmodded (a true sign of emotional insecurity). If you are new to spending an entire evening just to set up an operating system, and you don't understand the poorly written, 5-year-old HOW-TOs, going into an IRC channel to ask about it will get you "RTFA" and "haha n00bs." If you dare request that someone shape up their godawful GUI software for Linux, you will get people who will
Minorities. That's rich. The whole concept is flawed as with about five major races and 280 million people there's no real "minor" group anymore.
If you want to tread that road, however, I'm a white man in South Texas. "Minority" enough for you? =D
hes making a Yakoff Smirnoff (sp?) joke... Russian comic from the 80's who made lots of "In America... But in Russia..." type jokes.
its actually a pretty good reference...
Why is it that the shit you always want to mod as offtopic always shows up the day after your points expire?
I wonder why we got moderated "flamebait". Is that supposed to be funny? ;)
Ditto