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Spyware Floods in Through BitTorrent
solareagle writes "Public peer-to-peer networks have always been associated with adware program distributions, but BitTorrent, the program created by Bram Cohen to offer a new approach to sharing digital files, has managed to avoid the stigma. Not any more, anti-spyware advocates warn. According to Chris Boyd, a renowned security researcher who runs the VitalSecurity.org nonprofit resource center, the warm and fuzzy world of BitTorrent has been invaded by a massive software distribution campaign linked to New York-based adware purveyor Direct Revenue LLC."
I will admit to being rather conflicted. On one hand, it really irritated me to discover that the app I downloaded (for testing purposes only!) would also install spyware.
On the other hand who could I complain to? Bittorrent? Adobe? Direct Revenue?
Yes, once again Slashdot comes to the rescue! Where else can I gripe about companies that try to exploit my illegal activities!
Three Squirrels
If it did, we would have to call it BitDribble or something.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
> more than public
you mean less than secretive?
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Excellent idea; anyone know where I can get a torrent of VMWare?
(For those conserving humor filter battery power, I'm kidding--please don't reply...)
Look up the definition of irony sometime. I think you'll find it illuminating. Then read TFA.
It's funny to see BitTorrent now get their comeuppance. When you lie with snakes, you're going to get bit.
How does it feel to get hoist by your own petard now?
Feels just like making my bed and lying in it or lying with dogs and getting up with fleas. But not as embarassing as painting myself into a corner or being caught with my pants down. A bird in the hand is wor#*NG(*(JF>SA
POST TERMINATED: Cliche limit reached.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
If someone is competent enough to use BT, aren't they competent enough to realize that .exe is not a video?
Whoa hold your horses there Charlie. Remember that according to some RIAA lawsuits, we're talking about grandmothers, dead people and family pets here...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
This is why I only download my tv shows from respectable pirates. And for the most part, I don't run into too many archives, they're usually just a single avi file. The ones that do come as rars or similar are generally cams or crap.
Shhh....I'm working on that. Unfortunately, I had to leave the country due to the recent civil war, and I can not get the $10,000,000 in research money out.....
If you would like to help me recover this money....
You'll be my first beta tester.
Forget "security through obscurity", we're all about "security through antiquity"!
DOS 6.22/WIN 3.1 4EVAR!