Levi Aho
@rnktel.ne
| reply to loserhead
Sure, the fact that they bought spyware removeal tools from a popup ad indicated their inexperiance, but the isn't solely a newbie problem. You see, the ads to sell the faulty spyware removal tools are created by adware. If you read the Yahoo article they link too, you'd know that this first round of adware was drive by installed from some banner ads. My mother's Windows box is currently infected by this sort of software. (It's some adware that advertises all sorts of things. Sometimes it advertises anti spyware software.) I consider myself a hacker (not a cracker BTW), but I've had a hard time with this particular one. Don't know if it's related to this guy's activities or not.
Oh, and just in case you got your hopes up, this dosn't mean the government is taking spy/ad/malware seriously. This is a *civil* suit filed by the FTC. If they where serious, the FBI CyberCrime Division would get off it's collective behind and file some *criminal* charges. But no, they're off hunting teenagers with some craking skills and/or copyright violators or something. (BTW, I didn't say pirates because equating copyright violation with piracy is slander of the hightest order.) |
