SpywareGuide's Greynets Blog is a destination where you can hear from the people who are part of the SpywareGuide and FaceTime Security Labs research teams, as well as developers, programmers and the occasional guest blogger. You never know what topics will be covered -- spyware, adware, rootkits, botnets, IM worms, the money side of malware, the underbelly of affiliate marketing, the world of greynets. Greynets are network-enabled applications that are installed on an end user's system without ...
There's been some extensive examination of the server that hosted the (now deceased) Batman Online game website . I already highlighted two of the other dubious "MMORPG websites" designed to get the end-user to jump through hoops for very little (if anything) in return. Now I'm going to show you what else is lurking on the same box. As you might have expected, most of the other sites follow the same pattern - entice you into installing Adware, and giving you little to nothing in return. Family Guy Video site: Click to Enlarge Install Zango to "see Family Guy". Except once you've installed it, you're taken to a page of Youtube links . Watch Avatar Online: Click to Enlarge Install Zango to see the episodes. Once installed, you're taken - predictably - to another page of links . Even better, all of the links take you to some 18 year old guys videopage who only seems to have a grand total of three videos online. They don't exactly look official, either. Copy DS games: Click to Enlarge Install Zango to "find out" how to copy DS games. Once done, you get a page of info that could have been found in Google in about five second flat. Download Hip-hop beats: Click to Enlarge This one is particularly humorous. The site has four songs available to download, with a "Full Beat Download List" also available. To hear any of the four songs, you have to install Zango. Once you've done that, you finally have access to the download list. Imagine your dis ...
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There's been some extensive examination of the server that hosted the (now deceased) Batman Online game website . I already highlighted two of the other dubious "MMORPG websites" designed to get the end-user to jump through hoops for very little (if anything) in return. Now I'm going to show you what else is lurking on the same box. As you might have expected, most of the other sites follow the same pattern - entice you into installing Adware, and giving you little to nothing in return. Family Guy Video site: Click to Enlarge Install Zango to "see Family Guy". Except once you've installed it, you're taken to a page of Youtube links . Watch Avatar Online: Click to Enlarge Install Zango to see the episodes. Once installed, you're taken - predictably - to another page of links . Even better, all of the links take you to some 18 year old guys videopage who only seems to have a grand total of three videos online. They don't exactly look official, either. Copy DS games: Click to Enlarge Install Zango to "find out" how to copy DS games. Once done, you get a page of info that could have been found in Google in about five second flat. Download Hip-hop beats: Click to Enlarge This one is particularly humorous. The site has four songs available to download, with a "Full Beat Download List" also available. To hear any of the four songs, you have to install Zango. Once you've done that, you finally have access to the download list. Imagine your dis ...