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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 12 Jul 2004 16:18:34 +0000
somebody, probably sean, mentioned scaling earlier in this thread.
coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky.. so bad that development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its developer..
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the first time only about 3 days ago and I got rid of it in 10 minutes! I can see how it would be a problem for a newbie but it shouldn't be anything more than 10 minutes work for anyone here with Windows experience.
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There are dozen of variants, obviously you've seen only one.
so, this bit of spyware (which was resistant to ad-aware as of last week, though ad-aware seems to publish a new definition file every day now) relies on a web site, and that web site relies on the spyware for its traffic and eyeballs, and the spyware and website are owned/operated/"published" by the same company. the website does not move around, it's at a fixed location. the scaling issue, please: "why does that company still have an internet connection?" or, to put it less mildly: "why does that company's provider still have an upstream?" or, to put it in terms you can all understand: "why does that provider's upstream still have bgp peers?" if you give people the means to hurt you, and they do it, and you take no action except to continue giving them the means to hurt you, and they take no action except to keep hurting you, then one of the ways you can describe the situation is "it isn't scaling well." -- Paul Vixie
Current thread:
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious, (continued)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Michael Painter (Jul 11)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Jul 11)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Edward B. Dreger (Jul 11)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious William Warren (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Gregh (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious william(at)elan.net (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Gregh (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Paul Vixie (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Gregh (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious William Warren (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Daniel Golding (Jul 12)
- RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious David Schwartz (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Christopher Woodfield (Jul 12)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious David A . Ulevitch (Jul 12)
- plumbers coming down the pipe Paul Vixie (Jul 16)
- Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Paul Vixie (Jul 12)