Virus millionaires?
p2pnet.net News:- “A scary thought just occured to me,” writes F-Secure research director Mikko Hypponen on the company’s blog.
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As we know, there are millionaire spammers out there, ie. people who’ve made a fortunate by sending out spam.
We also know that some virus writers co-operate with spammers, either by setting up zombie networks of proxy machines to actually send the spam, or creating zombie web farms to host the sites or collecting email addresses for spam purposes via worms. Obviously they get paid for their efforts.
We assume there are virus writers out there that do this for a living. But how good money are they making? We don’t know…but for a successful virus writer who has good deals with good spammers it could be substantial.
So, I wonder: are there millionaire virus writers out there?
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blog – Money, March 26, 2005
March 26th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
there could be a reality tv show out of this.
“Who Wants to Be/Marry a Virus Millionaire?”
“The Spammer/Spammerette”
“My Spam Rules”
“My Virus Rules”
“The Fat Spammer”
“The Spam Survivor”
“The Virus Survivor”
“The Weakest Virus”
“The Weakest Spammer”
March 26th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
“The Apprentice Spammer”
“Big Blogger”
“The Spam Nanny”
“American Super-Spammer”
“American Virus Idol”
“Bob & Doug McKenzie’s Great White North Virus Treasure Survival Hunt”
March 27th, 2005 at 12:54 am
Bill Gates, or the people that designed ActiveX without better security, are arguably millionaire (billionaire) virus-writer helpers.
March 27th, 2005 at 5:57 am
Dude you’ve been watching toooo much TV but you are right there are tooo many reality shows on tv and most of them suck ass !!!!!!!!! My Idea for a reality show “Emergency Room” Blood and Guts 24/7
March 27th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
yeah, i watch a lot of tv, but absolutely no reality shows. and the only quiz i watch is the classy mastermind.
i watched BigBrother once about 8 years ago. crap.
March 28th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
I have been offered several hundred dollars to write a spam spewer. of course, I turned it down. The caller ID of coursed Showed out of area (surprising eh?). This came days after I wrote SpamFryer.
March 30th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
What’s certain is there are anti-virus millionaires….