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Holy Media Codecs, Batman!

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2008-08-27 10:10:53 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge Dijgg(dot)com, an obvious Digg.com knockoff apparently hosting a large streaming window - the movie quality will be awesome, won't it? Well, actually, no it won't In the middle of the video window is a popup Install the "codec", and this won't end well. The EXE comes from a site called Favoritetube(dot)com A quick check for...
 
 
 
 
 
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Zango And The Batman Online Videogame

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2008-09-03 11:00:00 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge You'll notice Batman, over on the right there. Let's take a closer look Free Online Batman Game"? Well, that's curious because I follow comics pretty closely and I'd be the first to know if an "Online Batman Game" had been in the works (this advert has been doing the rounds on numerous comic-related websites . Visit the URL in...
 
 
 
 
 
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Lost.....and Found

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2008-08-15 14:20:17 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge TV shows (apparently ripped and streamed from Chinese Youtube-style websites), hidden behind Zango installer prompts. Obviously, this is something of a mini industry we have here but I'm faintly alarmed that so many of these affiliates are happily churning out these...
 
 
 
 
 
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Credit Card "Hack Pack" Is Flavour Of The Month With Script Kiddies

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2008-06-30 08:34:20 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge The most notable program included would probably be something called Credit Wizard, which seems to make up the majority of the bundle with updated releases in each folder Click to Enlarge As you can see, it comes with most of the options of the other tools and also comes with an "Info...
 
 
 
 
 
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CNN Daily Top 10 Videos Spam

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2008-08-05 18:50:01 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge The first clue that something might have been amiss is the strangeness of some of the titles ("Michael Jackson sued by his own dog" isn't something I'd expect to see on CNN, at least not yet). Of course, the giveaway is that regardless of what link you click on, each one takes you to a website that isn't CNN.com - in fact, they all...
 
 
 
 
 
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Strange Digg.com Spamming

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2008-08-06 07:51:10 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge Each one links to a page on a website called Tubeteases(dot)com, and each page streams a Youtube video - usually females bouncing around in various states of undress Click to Enlarge Usually with spam like this, there's a financial incentive - however, I'm having a hard time working out what the motive is here. There are no...
 
 
 
 
 
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Automated Spim on Microblogging Site Via MSN Messenger

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2008-08-07 21:12:09 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge A page from Fanfou.com, which I believe is a Chinese site " inspired " by Twitter with much of the same features and functionality. In fact, it has one feature working straight off the bat that Twitter users previously had to rely on plugins for - the ability to send messages to their page via MSN Messenger updates http:...
 
 
 
 
 
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A Costly Crush

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2008-09-02 15:24:54 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge Some more complaints? Sure, I can do that There are many, many more like the above comments out there. One slight problem with all of this is that the complaints are scattered across a whole range of different Crush application forums - in short, they're all being blamed, but they can't all be doing this, can they? What's the...
 
 
 
 
 
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More MMORPG Fakeouts

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2008-09-04 16:16:43 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge To "download" this Dragonball Z MMORPG, you have to fill out a survey Click to Enlarge Once done, you'll be amazed(!) to find you're taken to....shockingly....the official Dragonball Z MMORPG game The only problem? The website is in Japanese and the game hasn't been released yet Click to Enlarge Forgive me for thinking this...
 
 
 
 
 
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"Interesting" Advert Placements On Facebook

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2008-07-03 18:45:10 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Enlarge Once done, you see the following screen and this is where it all starts to go a bit wrong Click to Enlarge Note that the application is ALREADY installed by this point, because the Gridview icon is on your list of current applications (highlighted by the red box on the left However, top right (also highlighted) is a box made to...