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A team of four researchers found [PDF] that 22 to 43 percent of their test subjects would download and run an unknown executable file for payments ranging from as low as $0.01 to $1.
The researchers used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to conduct the experiment. Participants were asked to download a program onto their systems and run it for an hour. They did not know what the program actually did. As the amount offered to run the program was increased from $0.01 to $10 over five weeks, the percentage of users who ran the program grew steadily and topped out at 43 percent.
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It's Easy to Infect People With Malware If You Pay Them a Few Cents
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @02:51AM
With malware if you make it so they can't be BURNT by what they can't touch: Custom hosts files are better, by FAR, on multiple levels in efficiency + added speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY single browser addon + fix DNS security redirect issues:
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:
http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74 [start64.com]
(Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)
Summary:
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A.) Hosts do more than:
1.) AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default)
2.) Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse"
3.) Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4127345&cid=44701775 [slashdot.org]
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B.) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS
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C.) Hosts secure vs. known malicious domains -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3985079&cid=44310431 [slashdot.org]
(w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown)
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D. ) Hosts files yield more:
1.) Speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS)
2.) Security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish & trackers)
3.) Reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets)
4.) Anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).
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E.) Hosts do MORE with less (1 file)
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F.) Hosts operate @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization).
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G.) Addons are more complex & ARE EASILY DETECTABLE BY NATIVE BROWSER METHODS - hosts are not!
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H.) Addons slowup browsers & in message passing (use a few concurrently - you'll see)
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I.) Addons> slowdown SLOWER usermode browserslayering on MORE - & bloating memory consumption too + hugely excessive CPU usage (4++gb extra in FireFox https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ [mozilla.org])
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* SO - Instead?
I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)
APK
P.S.=> "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"...apk (blocks ads (A tightly integrated /b itself)... apk
(Score: 2) by LookIntoTheFuture on Tuesday June 17 2014, @01:37PM
Not Soylentnews too! Get the hell out of here!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @07:14PM
I never post where this doesn't apply - & you're more than welcome to prove me wrong on that, + the points about it I extoll: Good luck, you'll need it.
APK
P.S.=> I know you can't so the best you've got is your bogus downmods, nothing more (& if you think that "fools anyone" doing those bogus downmods of yours? You're the fool...)... apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @07:40PM
The post is about malware, if I block access to them & their servers (hence their malware) using my app then how can you justify the downmod? This does that http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2401&cid=56202 [soylentnews.org]
APK
P.S.=> Answer that... apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 18 2014, @10:02PM
...and so it begins
the great pasting of duplicate /. posts
if... wait, what am i saying... when you start pasting your much beloved "tRoLl ReVeRsAl ScRiPt", see if you can manage to avoid the python indentation bug that i had to point out to you repeatedly before you eventually figured it out, and then blamed /.
and no, apk... exception handlers aren't meant for catching bugs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19 2014, @01:54AM
LOL, did I say they were? They're for stopping abends. You ran "forrest" 2x here http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2401&cid=56617 [soylentnews.org] & here too http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2401&cid=56595 [soylentnews.org]
* :)
(By the way - the FUNNIEST PART of the dolt who *tried* to say my idents were wrong LACKED THEM COMPLETELY IN HIS POST regarding that - hilarious, & the /. forums engine does make mistakes in MANY things, including indents (& adding things to the ends of posts people never posted either...)).
Better luck next time, chump!
APK
P.S.=> So, how was I 'off topic' (which you down moderated my original post for)? Why can't you validly disprove my points on hosts files adding more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY SINGLE BROWSER ADDON + more efficiently as well?? Keep "running", forrest (lmao)... apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19 2014, @07:35AM
nothing wrong with hosts files... you just suck as a salesman.
can't escape the indentation bug buddy. it's on your permanent record, along with your repeated denials of its existence and your ridiculous arguments that exception handlers are for catching bugs.
keep it up though :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19 2014, @01:20PM
I'M NOT SELLING ANYTHING - my app's free, fool! Bug? For a "bug", how come my code works?? Why did /. put extra material @ the end of my posts I never typed in??? Why did the dolt who *tried* to bother me on that have NO INDENTS @ ALL ON HIS EXAMPLES of Python????
* Answer those questions!
APK
P.S.=> Do yourself a favor - keep TROLLING (harassing others) - you need the practice since YOU totally suck @ it... apk
(Score: 2) by Popeidol on Tuesday June 24 2014, @09:19AM
You're posting on articles about how you shouldn't download unknown software, and saying it can be fixed by downloading an unknown piece of software.
Do you see how that might not be the best technique? Accompanying it with text that reads half way between spam and the guy from Timecube [timecube.com] doesn't help the situation.