Outsourcing Development of Malicious Adware / Malware Using RentACoder

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Saturday, August 20, 2005

I observed people outsourcing dubious projects on RentACoder. But this is plain outrageous.

I received a broadcast message from a RentACoder Buyer today who registered himself as ReyReyJr from Texas.

This is his message in entirety:

I will need the development as well as I will need one installation of this on my site and instruction on how to install this on my websites so that it can be auto downloaded.

This is what I need. I want a way to add a google search box with my adsense affilaite id on to other peoples toolbars and if they don’t already have a toolbar then one will be automatically created for them.

If you can I would like to incorporate a pop up blocker/spyware/adware/antivirus program with it as well.

I would like to be able to send updates to these toolbars and search boxes. for example if I need to change my affilaite id for the tool bar I can do this from one central location and it will automatically change on all the peoples toolbars that have been auto downloaded on to.

I would also like to be able to add other search boxes if needed. Such as overture when the y come put with their own version of adsense.

Google search is incorporated with some browsers already so what I want to do is to rewrite that google search box with my own with my adsense affiliate id.

I also would like to ad some advertsiments on the toolbar when I need them to be on. I would like this feature to be turned on or off by me and control which advertisments are shown and what they are linked to.

I NEED THIS TO BE SELF INSTALLED ON ALL COMPUTERS AND VISITOR THAT ARE ON MY WEBSITES. whether its a free or paid host site.

I will need this to install on all browsers and computers. For example if this toolbar is installed on a computer then Iw ill need this program to be copied into everything the user does. For example if they save a word document onto a floppy, cd, dvd, memory stick or whatever then this program will be saved as well and travel to the next computer which it is used on. i want this to work for documen ts, music, movies, and so on. Do you understand this?

Also if a computer auto downlaods this toolbar and it is in a network then this toolbar will be installed on every computer in the network too. Do you understand this?

Please feel free to ask me any questions on this. When i know that you can develop this for me I will let you know the rest of the features needed for this. Which is not alot

Thanks

Regards,

Rey

I am amazed at his gall. He wants people to write a software for him which will not only break Google TOS but also auto-install on users visiting his website. Not only that it will also install itself on other computers in the network. It will replace other toolbars with his own, add advertisements etc.

I think it will be easy to initiate a conversation with him to find out more details about him? Anyone willing to take it on?

I already reported this post to RentACoder. I will let you know what happens.

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Discussion

vikram
September 12, 2008: 10:17 am

From my personal experience RAC is a very risky place to work in. I bid an extremely low price for a big project hoping to get a good rating and more subsequent projects. However, the way that it turned out was that the buyer kept on expanding the scope of the project and it would never end. Frustrated I put the project into arbitration, but lost because of some feature that I tried to do but was not able to do completely. Overall, I lost about a months effort to nothing and most probably the buyer got a lot more than the initial project work for free.

On RAC, you need to be very careful about clueless buyers who will make completing projects a pain.

I would advise coders to stick with an hourly payment cycle on something like odesk.com and stay away from RAC.


Shivakumar
June 2, 2007: 10:06 pm

He forgot to add this ….

The toolbar should stick to the forehead of the people those using the computers and when they walk on the road, others able to use the search box.

I have come across lots of such projects.

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