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Analysis of Spyware

Posted by timothy on from the incompatable-with-my-OS dept.

scubacuda writes "What actually happens when you install adware/spyware/malware? Follow the Bouncing Malware examines what's downloaded, redirected, and obfuscated. A fascinating read. (Part two was postponed in order to cover a new My Doom variant.)"

19 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. HAH!!! by tekiegreg · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bow before me Spyware infested site, for I have Mozilla 1.7 and the latest Linux Kernel, you puny scum!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    Admit it, many a slashdotter is feeling that way right now...

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    ...in bed
    1. Re:HAH!!! by Nogami_Saeko · · Score: 3, Funny

      So... Security through obscurity then? :P

      (runs away)

      N.

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      "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
    2. Re:HAH!!! by Eudial · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah, i feel more like

      Mua ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Inferior beings! I run an antiquated version of SPARC solaris, and NOTHING is compatible with SPARC solaris! Not even spyware!

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      GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
    3. Re:HAH!!! by tekiegreg · · Score: 2, Funny

      ok I can one up that....my Netscape for abacus's owns your puny spyware infested site!!!!

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      ...in bed
    4. Re:HAH!!! by anynameleft · · Score: 4, Funny
      "run an antiquated version of SPARC solaris, and NOTHING is compatible with SPARC solaris! Not even spyware!"

      You know that your C compiler might well be infected to compile some spyware and backdoors into itself and applications it compiles?

  2. Slashdotted Already!? by mungeh · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...or maybe the malware guys got to them first?

  3. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ive heard that MyDoom 3 has just been released too... a much darker scarier variant which seems to have originated on mars

  4. What happens? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    What actually happens when you install adware/spyware/malware?

    I'm not sure. Let me ask BonziBUDDY...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    1. Re:What happens? by accidental_1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      What did it say?
      It told me i need viagra.

    2. Re:What happens? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      What did it say?
      It told me i need viagra.

      Well, it didn't tell me much, but it did reset my homepage to www.bonzi.com, just in case I needed to know more about purple gorilla manufacturers. How nice of him...

  5. Re:Mozilla Firefox - it solves most problems.... by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those poor soles running Internet Explorer (like ME until recently)

    Jesus, it's about time you upgraded from ME, I'd say...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  6. Re:I guess you missed the memo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, you are absolutely right! I am going right back to IE.

    After all, just this one vulnerability makes it just as insecure as IE's 1035.

    New one just in: now 1036...

    another: 1037...

    another: 1038...

    Shit! I'm not gonna keep this up all day!

  7. Re:firefox testimonial by TheHawke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Eeek! This guy just upstaged me! Now i'll go sulk for a week then get EVEN!

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    First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
  8. Re:A lot of people don't care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You wouldn't happen to know the URL for that dancing girl, would you?

  9. Re:Even Sevens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all -Hobbes

    So what did Calvin say to that?

  10. How about fixing the user... by Phil+John · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...since it's always the same one beat it into him with a clue-by-four.

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  11. Re:There's a simple solution to this.. by nyseal · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Just don't use Windows or IE"......now THERE'S something new for slashdot. Sheesh

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    [SIG] Remember Mattel handheld games?
  12. Re:firefox testimonial by Donny+Smith · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, I get it now - Microsoft makes shitty OS and then secretly invests in anti-virus companies to make money!

    Shiiit, maybe I should have put this in the slashdot-user-friendly format with little numbers as in:
    1. Write shitty OS
    2. Invest in A/V vendors
    3. Profit

    What a bunch of bullshit.

  13. Re:Even Sevens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The RIAA is not 'the authorities'.