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Microsoft Gives MVP Award to Adware Pusher

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-before-you-award dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ed Bott reports that Microsoft has given an MVP (Most Valuable Professional Award) to an individual known for peddling Adware via his Messenger Plus program." From the article: "So how did a guy whose primary business involves installing adware become an MVP? That's what Christopher Boyd, a Microsoft Security MVP better known as Paperghost wants to know. Boyd isn't the only MVP who has a history with Patchou. Sandi Hardmeier, a current MVP in the Internet Explorer category who specializes in the fight against malware, has written three long, angry pages about the messy adware that 'sponsors' Patchou's product."

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  1. Well it's Microsoft you know by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    They recognize their kin.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. They call adware a "sponsor program" by wwiiol_toofless · · Score: 5, Funny

    I lolled. Euphemisms are fun! WGA is a "Consumer Protection Tool" weeee! A Trojan is now a "sheathed injection of digital harmony!" Yippe! Really this goes to show it's Us vs. Them. As long as MS knows 90% of their customers are blissfully unaware, they're going to reward these dorks.

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    the mods may say you posted flamebait, but to me it's a flame that warms my heart. rock on, brother! --chebucto
    1. Re:They call adware a "sponsor program" by ClamIAm · · Score: 4, Funny

      A Trojan is now a "sheathed injection of digital harmony!"

      Depending on what you mean by "Trojan" and "digital", you may be right on the spot.

  3. Re:Was worried there for a moment... by iminplaya · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would like very much to corner him in a blind alley at night with something heavy and blunt.

    ...your enlarged penis?

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    What?