Olypmian medal winner revealed as toolbar scumware king

Bill · 2006-02-18, 05:08 AM

Speaking of getting the FSC to go after spammers and the toolbar crowd for us...

http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archive...guls_gold.html

"...the way he richly supported himself while training was incredibly unsportsmanlike and probably illegal: Begg-Smith was a key player in a company that infected other peoples' computers with adware a.k.a. spyware.

Canadian-born Begg-Smith reportedly is president of AdsCPM Network (a.k.a. CPM Media Inc.), a firm notorious for using "driveby downloads," security exploits, and other cheap tricks to install spyware (including keyloggers and browser hijackers) on unsuspecting Internet users' computers. "

"AdsCPM.com is currently offline, but an archived version of the site says the company served up 20 million pop-ups per day. Other sites hosted at the same IP address indicate the reach of the company's spyware enterprise. They include two sites infamous for distributing spyware ---FREESCRATCHANDWIN.COM and XZOOMY.COM, as well as one selling pop-up blocking software, kill-pop-ups.com."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaki...037817825.html

http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2...for-australia/

The more I think of it, the more I think a co-ordinated political attack on bulkers spammers and installers would be damn sweet.

2006-02-18, 05:08 AM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Olypmian medal winner revealed as toolbar scumware king Speaking of getting the FSC to go after spammers and the toolbar crowd for us... http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archive...guls_gold.html "...the way he richly supported himself while training was incredibly unsportsmanlike and probably illegal: Begg-Smith was a key player in a company that infected other peoples' computers with adware a.k.a. spyware. Canadian-born Begg-Smith reportedly is president of AdsCPM Network (a.k.a. CPM Media Inc.), a firm notorious for using "driveby downloads," security exploits, and other cheap tricks to install spyware (including keyloggers and browser hijackers) on unsuspecting Internet users' computers. " "AdsCPM.com is currently offline, but an archived version of the site says the company served up 20 million pop-ups per day. Other sites hosted at the same IP address indicate the reach of the company's spyware enterprise. They include two sites infamous for distributing spyware ---FREESCRATCHANDWIN.COM and XZOOMY.COM, as well as one selling pop-up blocking software, kill-pop-ups.com." http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaki...037817825.html http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2...for-australia/ The more I think of it, the more I think a co-ordinated political attack on bulkers spammers and installers would be damn sweet.