One thing's for certain, Begg-Smith and his spokepersons might try to deny or hide his history, but indisputable evidence remains on the internet viewable by anyone taking the time to find it.

said by capdjq :

Here's a more flattering article for the myriad of sour Americans who lost to him for the Gold Medal.

»www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common···,00.html

;):D

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Begg-Smith moved to Australia as a 15 year old with his older brother after deciding they could no longer participate in the Canadian moguls skiing program because it clashed with their business interests.

The pair run an internet advertising company which buys internet pop-up advertising and is reportedly worth $40 million.

The company, which the brothers established when Begg-Smith at age 13, has been the source of much speculation, and was again in the post-event media conference.

Begg-Smith fielded as many questions about the nature of the business as he did about winning a gold medal.

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it is irrelevant how he funded his training as long as he did so in a legal manner which he did. ... He committed no crime

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A lot of folks like adware. Most people must like it since they keep getting it.

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said by Mele20 :

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This thread would be more appropriate for this forum if it was about the users who refuse to learn how to avoid getting adware instead of about someone who saw a legal opportunity to make a lot of money and took it. Begg-Smith wouldn't have made all that money if more computer users were responsible users.

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Another kind of mogul
Begg-Smith is a business mogul off the slopes. At 13, the entrepreneur founded with his brother an online marketing company that Dale says has grown to the third-largest in the world. Begg-Smith originally started the Vancouver and New York-based company to fund his skiiing career. According to the International Olympic Committee's website, Begg-Smith runs an internet pop-up advertising company that he describes as the third largest of its type.

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""... Propecia is against the rules, malware is not - makes sense, doesn't it ? ...""

""... I suspect he'll get to keep his medal - I just hope none of his 'victims' live in Vancouver, anywhere near his precious Lamborghini ... hate to see that paint job suffer for the owner's transgressions ...""

said by TerryMiller :

Nice post CJ,

I think this really illustrates the magnitude of the malicious software problem that the world faces today.

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Origins

Group
CPM Media
Others By This Group
Second Thought· Free Scratch and Win· NetworkLink Server/Client· NetworkLink Server/Client 1.0· Dope Wars· Dope Wars 2001· Ixis Mail Bomber· 1st Mass Mailer· Second Thought· RVP· Dope Wars 2.2· PacerD· BroadcastPC·

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"He runs a legitimate business. He's just won a gold medal for Australia and everyone wants to cut him down."

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said by CajunTek :

Maybe in this sequence:

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Maybe he should be made to pay back those whose machines he has infected

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Maybe he should have a close encounter with a tree.

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The Chinese farmer

There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and, when all the farmer's neighbours sympathised with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'

A week later the horse returned with a herd of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbours congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, 'Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?'

Then, when the farmer's son was attempted to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was, 'Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?'

Some weeks later the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?

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said by CalamityJane :

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Maybe he should be made to pay back those whose machines he has infected

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PRESSURE is mounting on gold medal skier Dale Begg-Smith to detail the origins of his internet fortune, which increasingly appears to have been built on developing spyware that diverts users to advertisements and porn sites.

Begg-Smith's manager David Malina said last night he hoped Begg-Smith would issue a statement clarifying his business interests, after his gold medal performance in Turin brought his internet whizz-kid reputation back into the spotlight.

Mr Malina said Begg-Smith "would prefer the media to focus on that".

"He has minimised his involvement in the business and he'd really like to focus on his skiing," he said.

"He runs a legitimate business. He's just won a gold medal for Australia and everyone wants to cut him down."


Begg-Smith, 21, could not be contacted yesterday.

His companies CPM Media and AdsCPM have been identified as the origin of "spyware" programs that can redirect a computer to porn sites or install software that floods the computer with pop-up ads.

Spyware, which installs itself without the owner's knowledge, has become a huge internet security problem, said Ben Gutherie, product marketing manager at internet security company Trend Micro.

"Spyware has been massively increasing year on year," he said.

The CPM programs, which are installed without the owner's permission when they visit web sites, are difficult to erase and have been the subject of many angry complaints on internet help sites.

It appears the CPM spyware also redirects users to websites selling spyware removal tools.

CPM is believed to earn commissions for every click on a pop-up, a diversion to the advertiser's website and when sales result from those diversions.

Begg-Smith has been reluctant to talk about his business, which he started when he was 13 years old in his native Vancouver. He emigrated to Australia three years later.

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