• Admiral Patrick
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    1171 month ago

    Remember when this was considered the behavior of malware?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

    • r00ty
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      201 month ago

      Well the malware authors of yore could have gotten away with it, so long as they attached their malware to an even slightly useful program, added an EULA that was 40 pages long and on one of those pages mentioned the malware and had no way to use the software without agreement.

        • r00ty
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          191 month ago

          The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user’s web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user’s permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements

          Looks to me like they taught Microsoft well in this area.