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Originally Posted by onlymovies
What about tricking the surfer....same way these adware guys do in order to get them to signup. Encode some movies that need "a new codec"...make them agree to it so it's legal (ie, in the terms). But the "codec" cleans the surfers computer of that shit.
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Here is some news for those who don't know:
The toolbar and scumware people do this all the time - most of the installers for "black hat" toolbars first take steps to remove any other known toolbars from the systems they infect. It sort of becomes a war inside your PC, as the two (or more) toolbars fight it out for surpremacy.
It is one of the reasons most of the toolbars (including apparently Zango) have remarkable self healing (what we can self re-installation) abilities, hiding version of themselves all over the place so that they can be re-activated and reloaded automatically even after an attack to remove them.
We would have to have a large number of people working endlessly to try to find ways to get rid of this stuff... have you seen how many version of coolwebsearch there are?