Sgt_Kickaxe
msg:4368260 | 1:58 pm on Sep 28, 2011 (gmt 0) |
While I love hearing about successful botnet takedowns I'm not about to cheer on the same company who installed bingbar and two dozen other "helper" features on my new office computer before I bought it. I couldn't even install a copy of Mahjong from a DISK I own because it was helped into forcing real arcade to be installed by a "helpful" feature.
The irony of taking down a botnet while having infected my computer with helper features of their own makes me less than cheerful. I suppose it's a step in the right direction, but an affiliate ebay link on the desktop of new operating system installations? Forced online backups? Forced monitoring by a "security company"? Give me a break.
It took me two hours to remove all that "helper" crap, thanks Microsoft.
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Pfui
msg:4368277 | 2:17 pm on Sep 28, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I applaud Microsoft's take-down efforts and successes. I'd also applaud transparency about (or cessation of) their own bot networks...
MSN's many cloaked bots. Again. [webmasterworld.com]
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g1smd
msg:4368278 | 2:18 pm on Sep 28, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Must look in the logs to see if the 200 or more requests per hour for /<randompath>/admin.php, ongoing for the last year or more, have finally stopped. After being served "410 Gone" over 2 million times, they still haven't got the message.
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tangor
msg:4369300 | 9:34 pm on Sep 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| It took me two hours to remove all that "helper" crap, thanks Microsoft. |
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I'm in a different camp... nobody twisted arms (or sneaked in like a thief) to make you click and install those MS features. They, at least, were up front in what they do. Malware guys (and gals) are a different breed... there's no "offer/acceptance" and therein is the difference.
Kudos MS. Meanwhile raspberries for taking so long to "git 'er done".
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Mike_Feury
msg:4370004 | 7:27 am on Oct 3, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I too applaud the action and success.
Sgt K, you might be blaming MS for the hardware manufacturer's doings. I've installed a few Win7s without a single piece of crapware rearing its head.
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