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Click-Fraud Trojan Politely Updates Flash On Compromised Computers

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-kind dept.

jfruh writes: Kotver is in many ways a typical clickfraud trojan: it hijacks the user's browser process to create false clicks on banner ads, defrauding advertisers and ad networks. But one aspect of it is unusual: it updates the victim's installation of Flash to the most recent version, ensuring that similar malware can't get in.

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  1. Re:Alternate reason? by meerling · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just protecting it's turf.
    "This here's my #$&^!, you all go find a different one!" :P

  2. Canadian! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's fucking Canadian malware!

  3. Politely? by Nemyst · · Score: 4, Funny

    The trojan "politely" updates Flash? How would you do that "impolitely", exactly, by flashing a bunch of obscenities while updating Flash in the background?