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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)."

2 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    even the link is the same

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

    now enjoy re-hashing the same arguments over and over

    Windows sucks, get a mac/linux yadda yadda yadda

  2. $%*&^! web-designer BS by coats · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm running
    SeaMonkey 1.0.1
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.1
    but the web site gives me:
    Message boards - unsupported web client
    This feature requires a more recent version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. To download the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer, visit the Internet Explorer Web site.
    Damned incompetent web-site designers!!!! P?
    --
    "My opinions are my own, and I've got *lots* of them!"