Spyware

The site reports that the users are redirected through a maze of malware, all with the goal of gaining access to personal user information. It reminds me of that Eddie Izzard bit in “Dress To Kill” where he talks about how we as a society abhor serial killers but when we start to get even into the hundreds or thousands or millions we’re like, “well done! First, people figured out that in order to hijack people’s PCs for “bot net” purposes, they could try to trick them into installing a program that would slip it in, along with the desired program being loaded. The user might figure out he/she was infected with the spyware and try to clean it with a remover, but it would keep coming right back, as the original virus kept re-downloading the stuff. This led to popular anti-virus packages starting to blur the lines between spyware and virii (in cases where the company in question didn’t have a specific anti-spyware product ready to sell you). In any case, all of this confused a lot of people — but also made them catch on that a lot of this stuff appeared to be impossible to clean ONLY because of that “downloader trojan horse” trick. More Spyware News

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