Australia is the top comanding payment nation for “Installs Cash”! We are simply kicking the rest of the worlds ass here!
Price per 1000 computers - Australia is worth a solid $100, England is next behind us at $60, the USA is in at $50 and Asia is bringing up the rear with a lowly $3. These numbers put Australia at double the USA and 30 times more than Asia.
Mind you - I think this is one battle we actually don’t want to be winning. Shame, when I was so pleased by our solid first place position.
Installs Cash is a spyware installation company. A website puts a line of code on their site and then visitors get infected once they visit. The infected computers are then added to a ‘botnet’, which are then sold to unsavory characters. Botnets can be used for a variety of annoying things such as sending mass spam emails, hosting malicious sites and launching mass virus attacks.
Apparently, Australian computers are in high demand and command the highest prices, as there is a percieved lack of awareness and lack of anti-spyware measures so our computers can be part of the botnet longer.
So we apparently are the highest paying and most in demand computers for spyware folks.
How totally uncool.
Australia Wins!
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