Profiting from Spyware

by brian_turner

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Ben Edelman offers in interesting study on who is actually benefiting from unauthorised spyware installations. In Who Profits from Security Holes? he finds no less than 16 programs installing themselves from a single webpage, via exploits in an “out of the box” XP+IE installation.