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."

Comments

thieving? THIEVING!?

[Lead Butthead]

I think you meant to write illegal and thieving .

Dammit, for the LAST FSCKING TIME, it's copyright infringement. To state otherwise is to validate and perpetuate MPAA/RIAA propaganda.

Re:Oh, the Irony!

[poningru]

Another option is to get a userfriendly linux distro and boot into that and then dont even touch windows. There is a website at http://distrowatch.com/ that gives steps for doing this.

P.S IMHO ubuntu is pretty darn userfriendly, but some people dont like others mentioning that name, so therefore I shall refer to it as the u-distro.

Another way remove all the spyware

[tolkienfan]

It's called "Windows Service Pack 3"

Get it at: Windows Service Pack 3