Inside an Adware Company 244
Haikster writes "Brad Stone of Newsweek wrote a great article exposing DirectRevenue which is actually a combination of the old Dash guys with IPInsight, abetterinternet, offeroptimizer and blackstonemedia and the others... it's a bit lengthy but a great read."
Re:Interesting (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I hate malware. (Score:3, Informative)
$ wc -l
32848
I recommend it to anyone and everyone.
Re:When Will AntiVirus remove it? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Hosts file + GUIDs (Score:3, Informative)
And believe it or not... (Score:3, Informative)
These little bastards are the older brother of CWS, and they've got legitimate backing to do their dirty work.
If you se any HOSTS entries for IEAUTOSEARCH, you're infected - gat Lavasoft's VX2 plugin and hope for the best.