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Re:Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients by exikyut on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:54PM (#15152948)
"Potentially Unwanted Program"? That's a polite way of putting it.

> PUP.Optional.Booking

> This is the detection for a family of potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) that show advertisements hailing from the booking.com domain. This PUP predominantly uses scheduled tasks to trigger the advertisements.

Wouldn't mind seeing that looks like. Regardless, "scheduled tasks" definitely sounds like unsolicited EXE execution, which is firmly on the "no thanks" side of shady.

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Re:Bad UX: How Booking.com deceives clients by slipstream- on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:08PM (#15153315)
as InfoSec Taylor Swift once said, "potentially unwanted programs" are just malware with a legal team.
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