Who writes spyware and malware programs?
The authors of spyware and malware programs have a variety of motivations and reasons for producing spyware and adware programs. Some of the reasons are listed below: • Advertising revenue • Adware programs will often pop up adverts depending on the searches you conduct. This makes the Adware authors money as they will get a small amount of money every time an advert shows. However, if this operates on a global scale, the authors can soon strike it rich. If you think its only small bedroom companies doing this then you might be interested to know that Yahoo own a company called Claria (also known as Gator corp), who are one of the biggest adware software companies in the world. In an attempt to keep face Yahoo recently introduced a spyware remover into their toolbar to show that they are fighting spyware. When it was first introduced, it didnt remove Claria products very effectively, however after this was raised by certain people in the industry, things soon changed. • Fraud • The aim
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