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Virus Author Motives Changing
Posted by: duke on: 09/07/2005 02:07 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ]
Slashdot has linked to this BBC article which discusses how the motives for virus authors are changing.
During the chat, Diabl0 revealed that the Mytob worm had a very sneaky purpose. One of its intentions was to lower security settings on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser so certain pop-up adverts would not be blocked. Diabl0 said he would be paid by the pop-up ad makers for every user hit. Even if the compromised users managed to remove the virus, bragged Diabl0, the settings would likely go unchanged and the stream of unwanted adverts would continue.You can read the entire article over here.
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audioaficionado SMP aficionado too Posts: 3948 Joined: 2003-08-23 |
![]() He'd better get busy and develop a firewall for his backside for when he goes to prison ![]() Super Micro X8DTH-iF, Dual Westmere Xeons E5620 @2.4GHz Iwill DH800, Dual Prestionia Xeons 2.4 M0 @1.50v 220Mhz 3.3GHz Micronics W6-Lightning, Dual Pentium Pro @200MHz 512 KiB L2 Location: 42.3 N 122.9 W Medford, Oregon, USA Outside with my telescopes looking at the universe |
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hrsetrdr Registered User Posts: 154 Joined: 2005-07-17 |
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LOL...yea, he better make sure his cellie ,shower and bubba ports are all closed! ;) [URL="http://www.heatware.com/"]Heatware[/URL] |
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rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 5894 Joined: 2002-01-26 |
![]() I wonder if anyone is going after the people paying him or if this is going to be the usual "treat the symptoms, ignore the cause"... RMN ~~~ |
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Vuke69 Bitpimp Posts: 341 Joined: 2001-03-16 |
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Probably not, just like spam. It would be easy to stop both (at least for US, EU, AUS, etc... companys), just follow the money trail. Cut off the flow of money, and there is no reason to spam, or write virus that are profit orientated. I know there would still be viruses, but they would be more along the lines of the good old fashioned "screw your system" type. When the funding goes away, I'm sure the level of sophistication in viruses would drop dramaticaly as well. |
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Vuke69 Bitpimp Posts: 341 Joined: 2001-03-16 |
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Brings new meaning to the tearm "backdoor trojans." |
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hrsetrdr Registered User Posts: 154 Joined: 2005-07-17 |
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Nope. Using the same approach that the DEA uses with the "war" on drugs. [URL="http://www.heatware.com/"]Heatware[/URL] |