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Interview with an Adware Author
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| Eventually, instead of writing individual executables every time a worm came
| out, I would just write some Scheme code, put that up on the server, and then
| immediately all sorts of things would go dark. It amounted to a distributed
| code war on a 4-10 million-node network.
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| S: In your professional opinion, how can people avoid adware?
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| M: Um, run UNIX.
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| S: [ laughs]
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| M: We did actually get the ad client working under Wine on Linux.
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| S: That seems like a bit of a stretch!
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| M: That was a pretty limited market, I’d say.
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http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author
Related:
Is Microsoft Office Adware?
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| Is Microsoft Office adware? Wikipedia defines adware as "any software package
| which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a
| computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is
| being used."
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http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/is-microsoft-office-adware.html
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