All you 'installer' and 'spyware' people.. get in here.
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Depends on the installer, I've looked into spreading them in other ways, and most don't payout that well, between $0.12 and $0.35 depending on the volume.
I was going to give the USB Hacksaw a try on my own computer (just to test it), do any antiviruses detect it?
Edit:I just realized that you probably meant affiliate offers that payout $1, the problem with those I think that the user must download it from their site, and then install it for you to get paid. If not, I could probably make $6-7 per install.
I was going to give the USB Hacksaw a try on my own computer (just to test it), do any antiviruses detect it?
Edit:I just realized that you probably meant affiliate offers that payout $1, the problem with those I think that the user must download it from their site, and then install it for you to get paid. If not, I could probably make $6-7 per install.
Heh. Therein lies the challenge. Figure out a way to pull profit out of a $3/person investment. Now, assuming you can do that you'll be on your way to crop dusting the entire US in no time! Following that you'll likely be shot down by Air Force fighter jets for suspicion of terrorism and you can then use the money you earned to pay for your court fees. Alas, there is a silver lining. You'll get air time on CNN. Instead of wearing a sports jacket to court, you need to wear a shirt with a website URL. Better yet... ONLY wear a shirt with a website URL. That website URL, in turn, will get plenty of airtime on CNN, Fox News, and other media outlets. Thus, saving you much more than buying commercial air time on every news channel.
You thought this was just USB sticks...
Why don't you just package them up as a divx codec and upload a bunch of fake divx movies to filesharing networks. When people try to download them, it will prompt them that they need your "codec" installed before they can view the movie. They click "ok" and go to your site and download your package.
If its a big movie, people will do it for sure. By the time people get done downloading it, they will be damned before they just delete the file rather than installing a simple codec to watch the movie.
Its free and easily scalable. :rasta:
If its a big movie, people will do it for sure. By the time people get done downloading it, they will be damned before they just delete the file rather than installing a simple codec to watch the movie.
Its free and easily scalable. :rasta:
Just like putting a password on a zip/rar file that you share on a torrent site, and having them do a zip submit. by the time they get the file they just want to play with it
I like this idea :338:. When you say "package them as a divx codec", what method would you use? Are you thinking of packaging multiple pay-per-install programs as one bundled fake codec? What software or method can you use to do that? Is there a way to have them install all at once in the background without the person realizing that it's crappy spyware or whatever the software is you're getting paid for?
If someone downloads a divx movie...then they get prompted to download a special codec from your website...can't they just click "OK" or whatever and continue to play the movie? Or is there a way to make the movie/fake divx file not actually play & just prompt them to go get the codec? So even when they download & install the bogus codec from your website, the movie still won't play, right? You'll just have gotten your affiliate payout for the installation(s).
Sorry for all the newbish questions. Just wanting to explore this idea...
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besides this i'm pretty sure this would be illegal. silent installs without no end-user agreement to the installation is illegal. furthermore tampering with computer data (http traffic) to swap aff codes is also illegal. read up on the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. it's a very thin line to walk and you can very easily end up with a few felonies to your name. i'd recommend against doing any of this, but it's your ass
:xmas-smiley-010:hello wf, this is my first post
besides this i'm pretty sure this would be illegal. silent installs without no end-user agreement to the installation is illegal. furthermore tampering with computer data (http traffic) to swap aff codes is also illegal. read up on the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. it's a very thin line to walk and you can very easily end up with a few felonies to your name. i'd recommend against doing any of this, but it's your ass
hello wf, this is my first post
besides this i'm pretty sure this would be illegal. silent installs without no end-user agreement to the installation is illegal. furthermore tampering with computer data (http traffic) to swap aff codes is also illegal. read up on the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990. it's a very thin line to walk and you can very easily end up with a few felonies to your name. i'd recommend against doing any of this, but it's your ass
I think that it would be perfectly legal. You are not forcing them to use the drive, you just lost it. It's still your property that they are stealing from you.
Now, if you were handing them out to people that's a different story.
"I swear officer, I've been looking for my USB drive full of auto-installing spyware forever! ...Where ever did you find it?!"
Haha.
I would not say 'perfectly legal', there is definitely a shady element to this. Your intent is to install shit on the persons computer without them knowing it, and your doing this by deliberately placing your USB in the workplace. Your intent is clear, your defense will not hold up in a court of law, should it get taken that far.
This has been done with a slight variation. Infecting popular software with spyware and distributing them freely through torrent sites, generating a SHIT TON of data extremely fast. That kind of shit is illegal, plain and simple. Clearly this is taking it one step further than the usb example, but I strongly recommend you avoid this type of activity, it really isn't worth the risk and implications. By all means, take calculated risks, but don't delve into the blatantly shady and illegal.
Anyone come up with some good ways to monetize the install? I can think of a few good ways to send out a few hundred of these drives a day.
Not quite. If you lose one, maybe. But if you've got several dozen malware infected USBs lying around, the 'I lost it' defence isn't going to hold up.
Why leave them around and hope people find them? Set up shop at a mall or anywhere with foot traffic. Free USB drive, fill out this form. Now you have their name, email, and address for marketing and your software on their computer. Hooray! Im sure you wouldn't want to do this, face to face, for more malicious programs, but if its adware or similarly mundane why not?
or how about less illegal. Put applications on it that are free trials, but make them "free trial expired" when run. So basically don't offer it, but link to an affiliate offer for that software that actually offers a free trial.
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