Intentional SpyWare Infection?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday November 24, 2004 @06:30AM from the a-deliberate-contraction dept.

zagman asks: "I am doing some research on SpyWare / AdWare, and how to prevent/contain the problem, and am looking for some of those 'Bad Sites' - you know, the ones which take advantage of any of the known exploits and installs a whole bunch of software without your knowledge (or sometime with it). I am testing this on IE6 on an XP-SP1 box (no further patches) and also IE6.02 on a XP-SP2 box. Can anyone out there recommend some 'good' bad-sites for me to go? Benjamin Edelman did some similar work, and posted his results, but I also want to compare Mozilla and FireFox's response as well. Thanks out there!" Update: 11/24 4:05pm EDT by C : In case it hasn't been mentioned already, a considerable amount of infection can be obtained from a single website. Any other infectious goodies out there?

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Ironic timing... by mikeage · 2004-11-24 06:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

given that this article was just posted.

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Lyrics sites by kawika · 2004-11-24 07:53 · Score: 3, Interesting

I've found that lyrics sites are very common offenders. Just Google some lyrics from a popular singer and you will quickly find an infinite source of spyware and adware. Now, they have ads for many different ineffective spyware removers on those sites as well, so they are doing their best to screw their visitors twice.