Last week, I finally got around to writing about HideMyAss, and doing a spot of speculation about how other proxy anonymizers earn their coin. Almost immediately I hit "publish" I spotted this article pop up on Zdnet. Apparently/allegedly, Hola subsidise their income by turning your machine into a part-time member of a botnet.
Normally, I really enjoy being proved right - ask my long suffering colleagues. In this case though, I'd rather the news wasn't quite so worrying. A bit of advertising, click hijacking and so forth is liveable. Malware? You can get rid... but a botnet client means you might be part of something illegal, and you'd never know the difference.
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