Major Rogue Anti-Virus Program Shut Down

krebsatwpost writes "TrafficConverter.biz, one of the more notorious pay-per-install affiliate programs, was dismantled this week after media attention caused Visa and Mastercard to shut down the group's payment operations. The action comes just a few days after a report by The Washington Post that showed some affiliates were making more than $100,000 USD a week installing rogue anti-virus software. The credit card industry may have been spurred by the fact that the first version of the Conficker worm told infected systems to download a file from TrafficConverter, although the story posits that this could have been an attempted Joe Job rather than a blatant attempt to drum up more installs."

Comments

Re:About farking time...

[palegray.net]

Installing rogue software on thousands of PCs: Free.

Flying under the radar while you collect tons of cash: Free.

Realizing that all that money isn't going to keep your posterior from being repeatedly violated in prison: Priceless.