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Russian Firm Pays to Infect PCs with Adware

Posted by timothy on from the that's-pleasant dept.

Jaidev writes "Information week is reporting that a Russian site (IframeDollars) is paying web developers 6 cents for each machine they infect with spyware or adware. One security expert estimates that iframeDollars could collect as much as $75,000 annually from the adware it placed on the infected machines during the third week of May, which cost approximately $12,000 in payments to place"

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  1. Everybody is satisfied! by MikeDX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    # Everyone is welcome to join the iframeDOLLARS.biz partnership program
    # Earn $0.055 ($55.00/1000 installs) and more for each unique iframe installs
    # You only put the short one line iframe code on your page(s) and start to MAKE MONEY
    # WITHOUT any Active-X console or any pop-ups...It means that you will not lose your unique visitors with our iframe!
    # The best percentage of installs (10-40% from the total traff or it's $4-$15 FOR 1000 UNIQUE VISITORS)
    # DAILY updated soft
    # We have 3 reliable servers with excellent speed
    # Payments every Tuesday
    # Real-time statictic of your work
    # Payment via: Fethard, Webmoney, Wire and E-gold
    # More than 150 webmasters work with us
    # Friendly support service
    # Everybody who works with us is satisfied.

    Does this "everybody" include the people whos pcs get infected with this shit? How long before this becomes more widely known or more common place... and will joe public do anything or care? no. The only chance we have is when the next windows "more money, better computer needed edition" comes out..

  2. Honeypot browser by tgibbs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what we need is a "honeypot browser," that represents itself to a website as an old, unpatched copy of IE--but doesn't actually install the spyware. Then we could log in over and over, costing the spyware company money each time.