Presentations and Postings

I commented on Kaileigh's blog (http://kbyrnetu.blogspot.com/) and Kim's blog (http://kferraritu.blogspot.com/).

From Joe Hatch's presentation, I learned more about computer hackers and viruses and the like. I learned reasons why people create spam: to make money for themselves via adware, or in an even sneakier and more destructive way by adding viruses to them ("hijacked links") that put spyware on your computer and allow the spammers to learn your financial information. Not all hackers are spammers, and some just do it because they can.
I was particularly interested to learn a bit more about what adware is, as it is a word I have heard tossed around but never defined. As far as I understand it, adware is a little glitch spammers put in the links of their spam that causes you to a) click repeatedly so as to assure them more money and b) basically causes the spam to never go away and multiply and try and eat you. Or something similar ;)