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Why does Skype even have any clickable links in it at all if Microsoft can't be bothered to keep the obvious malware out?
by Bud 14y ago
Why does Skype even have any clickable links in it at all if Microsoft can't be bothered to keep the obvious malware out?
- anigbrowl 14y agoDon't miss the forest for the trees. If it wasn't skype, it'd be some other channel. The point here is that mining malware is a rather new and troubling phenomenon.
- eurleif 14y agoThere will always be ways to monetize malware. I'd rather they monetize it by mining Bitcoins than by doing something more destructive.
- taf2 14y agohoneypot anyone... create the appears of a hacked machine that is successfully mining... keep'em busy for a few weeks ...
- wahnfrieden 14y agoIt's surely automated, in which case, there's nothing to "keep busy" like a human manually hacking into the average lousy computer one by one.
- neurotech1 14y agoAnd of limited real value. A CPU only miner would yield about 10 MHash/s or less on standard hardware, and a malware/junkware loaded PC will do even less.
- bluepanda_ 14y agoIsn't the total hash rate the sum of the hash rates of all infected machines (i.e: 10MH/s * 2000 infected machines = 20GH/s)?
- nwh 14y agoFar less than that. My shiny quad core i7 gets 4MH, and I doubt most consumer desktop computers would manage that. You're probably looking at 0.5-2 at a maximum.
- mischanix 14y agoI recently came across a very naive-looking sample of a pooled GPU-miner being distributed via a purported crack for a certain EA game. It's ridiculously easy to implement GPU mining if you have any remote execution on a machine.