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A Day in the Life of a Spyware Company

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-rich-quick-schemes dept.

prostoalex writes "Business Week has a detailed expose of Direct Revenue. The article has some juicy details on the everyday workings of a spyware outlet, talks about the the business model and advertisers who funnel cash to Direct Revenue, and even mentions Direct Revenue's anti-spyware achievements (the company's installer blasted away competing spyware apps, so that the user's computer wouldn't be overwhelmed with redundant pop-ups)."

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  1. oh, I wouldn't be talking about redundancy by bunions · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/155 1237

    It's the same article in a different place.

    Additionally, it's in a different place, but it's the same article.

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  2. slashdot giving us the spyware experience by atarione · · Score: 4, Funny

    by spamming this story multiple times

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  3. Missing important details by arivanov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Latitude, longitude, altitude.

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    1. Re:Missing important details by QuantumFTL · · Score: 5, Funny

      Latitude, longitude, altitude.

      This is Slashdot - all we really need is their IP address :)

  4. Hmm. by AndreiK · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if you run their program and their competitor's program at the same time, they will kill each other off? Who needs virus scanners now?

    1. Re:Hmm. by bblboy54 · · Score: 5, Funny

      So if you run their program and their competitor's program at the same time, they will kill each other off? Who needs virus scanners now?

      Actually, who needs this? Windows has this feature built right in.

  5. QA for a spyware company? by teratogenicbenzene · · Score: 5, Funny

    Douglas Kee, then Direct Revenue's chief of quality assurance (QA)...

    Isn't having a quality assurance branch for a spyware company kind of an oxymoron?
    That's like having an "ethics department of sudan" or "NSA oversight committee".

    Sigh...

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