Yes. It should not be a crime to kill these scum.
We should also send the million euros to their family if they commit suicide. Malware writers would be making the world a better place by killing themselves.
The million is to get their friend to rat them out. We aren’t trying to get good people to kill them. We are trying to get bad people to turn on each other. Offer enough money and the Russians will do the dirty work for us.
Maybe YOU aren’t. I wouldn’t have a problem with it if a good person decided to kill a malware writer. Whether they get ratted out or killed, at least they’re not writing any more malware.
But if they are a good person and already know a malware author, they’d have already done it!
I’m not claiming to be a good person here, but the reason a lot of people are still breathing is because it’s illegal to kill them.
Why are they rich?
I don’t think that is the same though ( I may be being pigheaded here- snort)
On one hand we have people writing virus programmes to piss everyone off. All shits and giggles.
You seem to be saying that the people who placed the advertisements about busting malware (which probably doesn’t exist) are the same.
I don’t see the nexus.
Few people write malware just to piss people off anymore. In the OP’s case, we’re actually talking about a piece of malware that is normally completely invisible, and doesn’t affect the user’s experience at all. But it does sit in the background stealing all your personal data that you enter over the Internet. It does disable updates and open a lot of ports, allowing other malware in that can do even more things without ever alerting the user. Usually by the time the user detects it, they have several pieces of malware, and the only reason they notice is that there are hangups or freezes due to the malware interacting badly with each other.
Furthermore, Aleuron normally is attached to fake antivirus software of the kind mentioned ine the article above. They not only lie about you originally having malware, but also actually give you malware.
No one writes viruses for shits and giggles, at least not since about 1998. Malware is designed to generate income a number of ways. One, by extorting money from the user, by scaring them with loss of their data, identity theft or expensive repairs that can be avoided by paying for a phony program that does nothing. Two, they get your credit card number, which can be used for fraudulent transactions. Three, your computer becomes a part of a botnet, which can be used to send out spam, or conduct Denial of Service attacks on websites and networks. Most of the malware these days is coming out of the former Soviet republics, the Ukraine in particular, with ties to the Russian mob. There is evidence the government of Ukraine is turning a blind eye to the problem, because it brings in millions of dollars of hard currency per year. Most malware from this region will check to see what the native language of the computer is, and if it is Russian, it won’t infect it. They don’t foul their own nest, so the government doesn’t care.
Malware is big, big business. The days of script kiddies showing off are long gone, or at at least far overshadowed by malware for profit.
So now I need to learn Russian, and set my computer’s native language to Russian? I did always want to learn Russian…
I had heard most of these things come from outside the US, that’s why I wished an audit from their country’s tax authorities, rather than from the IRS. I imagine Russia and Ukraine must have some equivalent to the IRS. Maybe ex-KGB agents work for it. I hope so, because agents of the current equivalent of the KGB have access to things like thallium. Maybe ex-KGB agents still have buddies who could set them up with some.
It’s little touches like this (and the note about dominant arm) that distinguish the common curse from the true work of art that was your curse.
OK, Alexander Litvinenko didn’t die of thallium poisoning. It was polonium. But that would do, too.