Crap. Why didn't I think of that?

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>]

Oy. Vey.

"Study done by Carnegie Mellon University examine the cost for an attacker to
pay users to execute arbitrary code - potentially malware.

User at home are asked to download and run an exe without being told what it
did and without any way of knowing it was harmless.

Each week they increase the payment. Study observed that for payments as low as
$0.01, 22% of the people who viewed the task ultimately ran the executable.
Once increased to $1.00, this proportion increased to 43%. As the price
increased, more and more users who understood the risks ultimately ran the
code. They conclude that users are generally unopposed to running programs of
unknown provenance, so long as their incentives exceed their inconvenience."

http://www.spywarenews.org/easiest-way-to-get-people-to-install-malicious-software-is-to-pay-them/

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