I believe this has been brought up before

[SpywareShooter]

but nothing was done about it.

Would it be wise to send an email to the webmasters of innocent websites which have malicious Active X controls on them (for example, lyrics sites)? I don't remember what was said about this before, but to me, it seems like a good idea, and if we can get those sites to remove those Active X controls from their pages, it will cut down on the number of users with spyware. I can start a list of sites with malicious Active X Controls if it would be helpful. What do you think about this?

[gibbonsl]

if it would cut down on spyware I am all for it

[primesuspect]

some webmasters make money with those things though, or they get free or extremely cheap hosting in exchange for having those controls on their site. I doubt you'd be able to find very many "innocent" webmasters.. They either have no control over it, or make money off of it.

[SpywareShooter]

Well even so, they should know that there are better ways to make money off of their service than installing malicious software onto user's computers, which is illegal.

[Access_Denied]

i say fight fire with fire. if there gonna install crapware into innocent peoples computers then they deserve whats coming to them. about 1,000,000,000 packets should take care of it :D

[Access_Denied]

i came accross a website the other day that hotlinked broken pictures of a fake credit union's website,using there bandwith. the pages reloaded themselfs every 15 secs further increasing bandwith usuage. so at least a little of the money the fake bank was sqandering out of innocent people was used up paying for "wasted" bandwith. now im not applying anything illegal here ;) just giving people with suffecent resorces something to think about.