Confessions of a Spyware Author

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "I was sitting next to Ed Skoudis in the front row of the Anti-Spyware Coalition Workshop in Washington, D.C. this past February 9th. Ed and I had been working together during the previous days, testing enterprise anti-spyware applications for a "shootout" article that we were co-authoring for Information Security magazine. In preparing the various tests for that article, I had developed 25 small applications that each performed a single "spyware-like" behavior - dropping an executable and installing a key in the Windows registry to launch it on boot, changing the user's wallpaper, changing the user's homepage, etc." }-
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