Crispy Critter wrote:
> On 31 Oct 2006 16:18:22 -0800, Nick Skrepetos wrote:
>
>
> > It's not the anti-malware/anti-spyware vendors fault they can't get
> > ahold of every sample on every single day - you would not believe the
> > number of samples we, and other vendors, receive on a daily basis -
> > thousands and thousands of samples.
> >
> > You wonder where the spyware is coming from - bottom line - companies
> > such as Dollar Revenue pay big bucks per install:
> >
> > USA $ 0.30
> > Canada $ 0.20
> > United Kingdom $ 0.10
> >
> > The spyware market is probably more lucrative for many companies than
> > the anti-spyware market - if we were writing the spyware, don't you
> > think we could remove all of it?
> >
> > If users were not surfing Porn, Stealing Software (Warez/Cracks),
> > Stealing Music/Videos (p2p) - the whole problem would not be so great.
> >
> > If people were willing to pay for software and services on the web,
> > there would be no market for the spyware vendors - they spyware targets
> > "free" because users just can't keep away.....users are the ones in
> > control of changing the spyware game - the anti-malware vendors are
> > here to clean up the mess...
> >
> > Nick Skrepetos
> > SUPERAntiSpyware.com
> > http://www.superantispyware.com
>
> OK, thanks for the insights on the spyware game. Off to surf porn now.

Happy surfing - it keeps me in business

-Nick