The software, originally spread through classic methods such as spam, has moved on to more sophisticated attacks by providing links to infected web sites through popular social media content such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, by feeding a corrupted advertisement into an ad network for web sites, and by poisoning search results called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning.

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What's more, some of the pursuits of these venture philanthropists seem more like self-serving science projects: Never mind feeding the poor, let's wire up schools for Web surfing.

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