Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Click Here To Infect Your PC!

 
 

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Click Here To Infect Your PC!

via Slashdot by kdawson on May 16, 2007

Email me for FREE viruses writes "Just how many people would click an ad saying "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!"? According to the security researcher who ran that very ad on Google for 6 months, 0.16% (409 of 259,723) would click on it. 98% of those people were running Windows. The Google Adwords campaign cost $23 in total, which works out to $0.06 per infection had the site actually been malicious."

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