On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:08:50PM +1100, Jeff Zaroyko wrote: > http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware-author > > In an interesting interview, former adware author Matt Knox mentions > that he was able to run his adware client on Wine: > > S: In your professional opinion, how can people avoid adware? > M: Um, run UNIX. > > S: [ laughs] > M: We did actually get the ad client working under Wine on Linux. > > S: That seems like a bit of a stretch! > M: That was a pretty limited market, I'd say.
Well, I spotted some Adware in my Wine lately that got installed with some "free" Web Media Player. It seems to fail to inject stuff into the Windows Firefox 3 though. Ciao, Marcus
