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** It gets better. He was also the developer of Windows' original RootkitRevealer utility.
* Some rather clumsy scammers were unlucky enough [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/17/tech_support_scam_takedown/ to catch parents of a computer security expert] with scareware. Hilarity (and irony of the "antivirus vendors" receiving a "photo of my credit card" infected with the hottest disk-encrypting malware at the time) ensues.
* Two more cases summarized and linked in a blog article titled ''[https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-sudden-and-acute-failure-of-victim.html A sudden and acute failure of the victim selection process]''.
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