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Was reading a news article today and ran across a report about a
Do-It-Yourself Spyware Kit being offered by a russian website for $20. It's called WebAttacker and it includes scripts that make it easy to infect computers and spam-sending techniques. The site even offers tech support to buyers of the kit.


I know that this isn't the first "kit" out there, but this just goes to show that spyware makers and spammers are getting more bold than before, plus this allows just about anyone to make spyware without the basic knowledge of programming. So I won't be surprised to see an increase in spyware attacks and spamming thanks to these boneheads. I appologize for the way I phrase my wording about these people, but when you have to spend hours to days removing these infections that won't go away with decent cleaning programs, then you tend to get a little mad hearing that they have a do-it-yourself kit now.

there have been "kits" available for these sorts of things for a while. Luckily all the major anti-virus, spybot, anti-spam software can easily detect and nutralise them. It's still the case, i think, that the ones too watch out for are, as always, the ones made by those who really know what they are doing.
Spose its a fact of digital life.