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3 unusual facts about Christopher Boyd


Christopher Boyd

Boyd was Director of Malware Research for security company FaceTime, before becoming a Senior Threat Researcher at Sunbelt Software (later known as GFI Software).

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An article by John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine alleged Boyd was part of some "Grand Microsoft Conspiracy" to bad-mouth BitTorrent to the benefit of their planned P2P tool, Avalanche.

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This technique is used heavily today by the groups behind the spyware CoolWebSearch (CWS).



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