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Russian adware trojan pays programmers 6.1 cents per infection

A Russian adware site is paying programmers 6.1 cents for every machine they infect with an trojan that displays the Russian company's customers' ads.

IframeDollars.biz says it pays Webmasters to place a one-line exploit on their sites. The code exploits a number of patched Windows and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, including some that go back as far as 2002…

IframeDollars says it pays $61 per thousand unique installations, or 6.1 cents per compromised machine, to any site that signs up as an affiliate…

Stiennon estimates that iframeDollars could collect as much as $75,000 annually from the adware it placed on the infected machines two weeks ago, which cost it about $12,000 in payments.

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