Fascinating, detailed interview with the programmer behind Direct Revenue, responsible for the adware on several million Windows computers whose owners didn’t know better.
Fascinating, detailed interview with the programmer behind Direct Revenue, responsible for the adware on several million Windows computers whose owners didn’t know better.
What I found particularly interesting were the obfuscation techniques. The Virtual Process idea (a bunch of threads talking to each other, with no actual process per se) is particularly wacky. And of course the bigger downside to all this clever programming is that the techniques are equally applicable to writing virii.