To get away from the trend of putting in less useful entries, here is a serious one. Symantec site points out that a “build your own trojan kit” can be had for about $20.

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/08/buildyourown_trojan_starter_ki.html

I don’t believe this is really “news”, in the sense that’s it’s been well known for  a long time, but they give a fair amount of detail and even a screen shot. And this kit seems to come with full instructions so the complete newb could be up and trojanning within a short time.

It’s still hard to understand why these things are so widespread. I could understand that people might get a sense of intellectual achievement from creating their own trojan from scratch. I can understand actual fraud. Beyond that, messing up people’s pcs by making them install pre-pack malware doesn’t even seem to provide malicious pleasure, in that the people who do it can’t even see you tearing your hair out and having to sell the family dog to a pie company to buy a new hard disk.

On a scale of 0 to 10 for lameness, this post is clearly at the low edge of being mobility challenged. Nevertheless, does anyone else find they are getting half their music choices from the adverts?

My first foray into the demonic underworld of people who choose music on the basis of consumer promotions was the Joanna Newsom “This side of the blue” from an IBM advert – IBM no less. Soon followed, on the sort of downward path normally associated with Faust, by Jose Gonzales’ “Heartbeats” (Sony Bravia.) Now, it’s Bedouin Soundclash “When the night feels ” (T-Mobile)

Argh.

I find there is even a website devoted to this shameful practice. http://www.tvadmusic.co.uk/ It describes itself as “your number one website for songs from UK television commercials.” It just feeds the problem, by pointing out new adverts you have never seen.

Sorry.