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System Adware Scanner 2010, rogue with fake credentials

by certifiedbug on December 16, 2009

in Scareware Rogues

Sunbelt Blog: New rogue borrows massively from AV company sites

Although the group claims 10 million users world-wide, oddly enough their site was only registered Nov. 25.

It seems they also have recruited the entire management team from AVG anti-virus company as well. Right!

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Bribeware, a dollar to install adware bundled product

by certifiedbug on December 8, 2009

in Internet Security

The bribe comes in an application with agents that change browser home pages.

Sunbelt’s blog contains a screenshot of C4DLMedia’s terms and conditions. It pays to read the fine print (literally)

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Edelman:Google and its partners inflate advertisers’ conversion rates

May 13, 2009

Respected Spyware Researcher Ben Edelman gives four examples:
WhenU – adware
SmileyCentral – toolbar
Typosquatting
Chrome – browser suggestions
Detailed article:
How Google and Its Partners Inflate Measured Conversion Rates and Increase Advertisers’ Costs
http://certifiedbug.com/blog/tag/edelman/

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NoScript-Adblock Plus mini wars

May 4, 2009

Posted by: Giorgio, NoScript. 2009-05-04
I screwed up. Big time.
Not just with Adblock Plus users but with the Mozilla community at large.
I did something extremely wrong, which I will regret forever.
I abused the power and wasted the enormous trust capital gained by the NoScript add-on through the years to prevent Adblock Plus from blocking stuff on [...]

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Competitors try to force removal of independent security program

April 7, 2009

Beta News, Security.
“It’s hard enough to make a name for yourself as an independent anti-malware company, without competitors demanding your software be uninstalled.”
For years, Spybot Search & Destroy has been one of Fileforum’s single most installed pieces of software, with nearly 67 million downloads since 2000 on our sister site alone. It’s one of the [...]

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Direct Revenue: spilled beans

January 15, 2009

Paperghost blogs.
I just read an article called “Interview with an Adware Author“, where someone called Matt Knox (who used to work for Direct Revenue as a programmer) seemingly tries to present a sympathetic view of the company that should have fallen into the 8th Circle of Hell, hopefully with the Sowers of Discord and Schism.

Vitalsecurity
Reading [...]

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Ben Edelman on “False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo’s Right Media”

January 14, 2009

Long article, make a nice pot of tea and settle in.

Benjamin Edelman
Yahoo’s Right Media ad marketplace features widespread ads exactly designed to deceive. I present ten examples of these deceptive ads, and I critique their unwelcome characteristics. To estimate the prevalence of deceptive tactics, I examine Right Media’s own analysis ad characteristics — finding that [...]

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Adzilla pulls out of the US, headed for Asia

October 15, 2008

On the heels of a Congressional crackdown on Charter Communications and its Web tracking partner NebuAd, behavioral advertising firm Adzilla has reportedly quit the US market following the resignation of chief executive Toby Gabriner.
Gabriner, who was named CEO at Adzilla earlier this year, told the New York Times,
“It’s not like I didn’t know that [...]

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Jellycloud folds

October 3, 2008

Disgruntled users wanting to know how grape.jellycloud.com ended up on their computers will be interested in this article at ValleyWag. Apprantly a tipster informed them Jellycloud went under this weekend, with liquidators repossessing their furniture.
Most of the senior management team at JellyCloud used to work at Claria Corporation, previously known as Gator, the [...]

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Consumergain.com spamvertise’s at Photobucket

August 30, 2008

So there I was at Photobucket looking at images when this popped up.

I clicked No and was redirected to the site anyway. In other words my browser was Hijacked.
WOT edged in to say no no no.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/consumergain.com
Site Advisor also flags consumergain.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/consumergain.com

Press release January 30, 2008 by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges. “Free” [...]

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