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One of the more notorious pay-per-install programs, bTrafficconverter/b has been taken down today.br /br /These sites work like this:br /br /1. Trafficconverter developes a rogue antivirus productbr /2. The product will find viruses even on clean systemsbr /3. It wont clean those viruses unless you register the productbr /4. Trafficconverter does not market their software at allbr /5. Instead, all the marketing is done through affiliatesbr /6. Affiliates have existing botnets of thousands of infected computersbr /7. They remotely install these rogue products to those computersbr /8. Confused end users see warning messages about viruses on their screensbr /9. ...and register the rogue product for $50 to fix their machinebr /10. Affiliates get $30 per customer, Trafficconverter get $20br /11. PROFIT!br /br /So, its good to see these guys going offline.br /br /Heres the front page of trafficconverter2.biz yesterday:br /br /img border=0 src=http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/trafficconverter.gif alt=trafficconverterbr /br /Same page today:br /br /img border=0 src=http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/trafficconverter2.png alt=trafficconverterbr /br / pOn 20/03/09 At 02:22 PM/p
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