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Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money
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| Digsby takes bundled crapware to a whole different level, however. During the
| install you are prompted for not one, not two, but six different pieces of
| junk software, and then for good measure they offer to replace your home page
| with something terrible and take your search engine down a notch.
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http://lifehacker.com/5336382/digsby-joins-the-dark-side-uses-your-pc-to-make-money
Digsby IM Client Quietly Installs Badware
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| The money-making distributed computing software is in addition to
| six "crapware" apps that users must refuse during installation. The terms of
| service that no one ever reads does describe the CPU- and bandwidth-robbing
| moneymaker, and its off switch is located behind the "Support Digsby" menu
| item.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/14/147233/Digsby-IM-Client-Quietly-Installs-Badware?from=rss
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data. Â
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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