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MilesAhead:
I wonder how many people actually fall for those scam sites?

(Probably a lot. I don't have much faith in human intelligence.)
-f0dder (January 31, 2009, 04:57 AM)
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I think dolphins were smart enough to see what evolution was up to, and stayed in the water.  :)

scancode:
can you explain a little bit more about what you have discovered they are doing scancode?
-mouser (November 30, 2009, 12:18 PM)
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I'd be glad to, mousey.

Take freeware/FOSS and they write their custom installer for it, and design a website.
Make said installer ask for a download token, which should be BOUGHT via SMS.
Then it installs a browser toolbar and other assorted naughties.
If the website is visited from a country they're not interested in scamming, redirect downloads to the real site.
...
Profit!

Fucking evil.

Innuendo:
can you explain a little bit more about what you have discovered they are doing scancode?
-mouser (November 30, 2009, 12:18 PM)
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Just going by scancode's Adobe Reader example it'd cost him US$2 just to install it. Then it looks like it runs a suspicious file called Peer2Peer.exe and installs a Firefox extension called Peer2Peer as well.

EDIT: scancode beat me to the punch.

mouser:
that is very evil.  >:(

scancode:
The SMS validation service is provided by a server who also hosts smgj://russian.ircfast.com/, a download site that ALSO does the SMS thing. Are all the fuckware companies related?

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