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

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.