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21 Dec This post is from from my other blog here Virus Marketing - When I ran a computer store in the late 90’s, a lot of people would bring in computers with viruses and spyware to be removed, and they would usually ask us what the “point” was in these acts of cyber vandalism. Other than sending out e-mail blasts and infecting other users, or destroying data on the machines most of the viruses were just a nuisance and served no purpose other than to annoy. Early in the century, spyware started getting more intelligent, with key loggers and data miners routinely packaged with “free software” that started gathering credit card numbers and ...
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