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suzi
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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:39 pm Post subject: Direct Revenue plotted to hijack your computer |
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Great article here from BusinessWeek Online:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_29/b3993001.htm
It starts out:
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The Plot To Hijack Your Computer
They watch you surf the Web. They plague you with pop-up ads. Then they cripple your hard drive
Consumers have strong opinions about Direct Revenue's software. "If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," a person who identified himself as James Chang said in an e-mail to Direct Revenue last summer. "I will f------ kill you and your families." Such sentiments aren't unusual. "You people are EVIL personified," Kevin Horton wrote around the same time. "I would like the four hours of my life back I have wasted trying to get your stupid uninvited software off my now crippled system." |
It's fascinating reading.
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bob30880
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: |
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It is definitely fascinating....
This excerpt boggles my mind:
"From early on, a small group of programmers at Direct Revenue focused on how to protect their employer's programs once they were lodged in a computer,........they crafted software "torpedoes" that blasted rival spyware off computers' hard drives. Competitors aimed similar weapons back at Direct Revenue's software, but few could match the wizardry."
Considering how difficult it is to remove some of this stuff, these programmers could have made the same kind of money writing software on this side (the Anti-Spyware side) of the universe.
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