May 23, 2007

Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!


CNN.com today reported:

"Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple text advertisement on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus for people who did not have any.

Surprisingly, he found as many as 409 people clicking on the ad saying "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" during a 6-month advertising campaign on Google's Adwords, said the IT security expert.

There was no virus involved, it was an experiment aiming to show these kinds of advertising systems can be used for malicious intent, Stevens told Reuters."

Direct marketing works ... what else can I say?


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Posted by Barbara J. Feldman at May 23, 2007 9:01 PM | Comments (0)
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