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Old 10-17-2006, 09:57 PM  
SteveLightspeed
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Originally Posted by Brujah View Post
Eventually this thread will become "Who cares.. what does it pay?"
What if there was a new "watchdog" type program, with an affiliate program paying everyone to distribute it, maybe even offering incentives for surfers to execute it, whose sole purpose was to detect and publicly expose whoever is profiting from malicious installs?

What would it take to build a "watchdog" type program that follows the MONEY? It seems like the only way to kill spyware is to publicly expose the money trail.

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