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Flashback Click Fraud Campaign Was a Bust
zarmanto writes "It seems the Flashback botnet has netted their creators nothing but frustration. Flashback was tagged early on by anti-virus vendors, who promptly sink-holed many of the command & control addresses, and essentially crippled the hacker's ability to control the vast majority of the Flashback botnet... but that's not the best part. The Flashback spawned click fraud campaign resulted in... nada! It seems that their pay-per-click affiliate may be on to their scheme, as they refused to pay out. Score one for the good guys, for once."
oh you'll be surprised... don't be alarmed if one day you discover someone inside your own house is ad-clicking, or worse, can't tell the difference between a real button, and a flash-drawn ad button... and here i thought, my people would know better after all these years of obviously useless rants from my side....
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Not likely. We use Firefox and Adblock, so pretty much anything that looks like an ad is suspect. Only fools click on them.
Oh, and Flashblock too, so your flash-drawn buttons are pretty obvious.
It should be obvious: The stupid vote for the stupid candidate, and in America, the stupid are very nearly the majority.
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Not everyone is net savvy you know. I have been teaching a neighbor who was computer illiterate and I've had to go through explaining as many of the tricks as i could off the top of my head but he STILL ended up with a bug trying to install itself because he used a local Wifi hotspot that required IE and thus blew my adblock and pop up blocking all to crap.
Luckily i taught him to always listen to the AV and if the AV said no them dammit don't do it, so when the AV popped up and said "Don't run that!" he listened. but I can see how easily those like him could have been fooled because he took a picture of the screen and it looked pretty damned close to a Windows dialog box. While you or I would have known it was bullshit, someone like him who didn't know about such tricks? i could easily see why they get burned.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Let's not forget who we're dealing with here. Apple makes their business duping people and manipulating people into thinking thing's are magical. The heavy-handed way they deal with press is well known.
That said, all it takes is one "leaked" story or one bough-and-paid-for (or influenced) study or online news site to say that its a bust and poof! Malware makers will suddenly think it's not profitable to write malware for iOS/OS X.
So don't buy it. Apple has had a history of malware, and a record amount of malware and vulnerabilities in it's user software (Quicktime, ITunes, Safari, etc.).
Apple malware will rise. And their BS sandboxing method isn't gonna stop it.