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Trojan Horse targets Google Adsense
dorkygeek writes "The Register reports that nogoodniks have developed a Trojan horse program that produces fake Google ads posing as the real thing. The as-yet unnamed Trojan replaces legitimate ads served via Google AdSense with promos for penis pills, porn sites and the like. Techshout says the Google AdSense team confirms 'that these are fake Google ads, formatted to look like legitimate ads. We agree that this phenomenon is likely the result of malicious software installed on your computer.'"
... spyware/adware does bad things to your PC. /yawn
rooooar
...for creating a platform of search results and ads that others can use to exploit.
(Well at least that would be the stance garnering karma if we were talking about MS)
Wow, program that installs software on your computer changes how you view websites! Thanks "The Register" programs like this have never existed before!
Shouldn't you be posting articles about how Wikipedia killed your father? Or did you just need to update another crappy portion of your tabloid's website for a change?
But if you had a Macintosh...
you'd be a gay trendy fucking manlover?
No thanks, I'll keep my PC...
It has recently come to my attention that each of these issues is central to the fogyism debate. The points I plan to make in this letter will sound tediously familiar to everyone who wants to address the real issues faced by mankind. Nevertheless, the evidence for this lies in the underlying assumptions behind Google's intimations. The best example of this, culled from many, would have to be the time it tried to grant twisted monomaniacs the keys to the kingdom. Still, it is hardly surprising that Google wants to make people suspicious of those who speak the truth. After all, this is the same unprofessional couch potato whose fatuous prattle informed us that we should derive moral guidance from its glitzy, multi-culti, hip-hop, consumption-oriented strictures.
Last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Google that its intellectual dishonesty, mismanagement of facts, and outright lies make logorrheic conspiracy theorists seem ready for sainthood, in comparison. As I expected, Google was unconvinced. This is equivalent to saying that Google asserts that "the norm" shouldn't have to worry about how the exceptions feel. Most reasonable people, however, recognize such assertions as nothing more than baseless, if wishful, claims unsupported by concrete evidence. Google sees all the evidence, but it is reluctant to accept the conclusion that I try never to argue with it, because it's clear it's not susceptible to reason.
Sensationalism, as a social philosophy, is footling, but I guess nobody ever explained that to Google's accomplices. I myself see two problems with Google's bruta fulmina on a very fundamental level. First, it would have you believe that anyone who resists it deserves to be crushed. And second, when it tells us that it can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion, it somehow fails to mention that I find its comments to be a perversion of the truth. It fails to mention that it wants to rid the world of "defective" people. And it fails to mention that it speaks like a true defender of the status quo -- a status quo, we should not forget, that enables it to harvest what others have sown.
Google's conclusions are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us any day now. Before I knew anything about Google, I was once an onlooker at a few of its mass demonstrations, without possessing even the slightest insight into the mentality of its stooges or the nature of its initiatives. In reaching that conclusion, I have made the usual assumption that this is what Google's confreres try to prevent us from hearing about on radio and television or reading about in popular magazines and large-circulation papers. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me confront and reject all manifestations of chauvinism. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because it seems that no one else is telling you that Google is like a parrot that makes noises for attention without any kind of clue as to what it is saying. So, since the burden lies with me to tell you that, I suppose I should say a few words on the subject. To begin with, a colleague recently informed me that a bunch of rapacious imbeciles and others in Google's amen corner are about to keep us hypnotized so we don't admonish Google not seven times, but seventy times seven. I have no reason to doubt that story because Google coins polysyllabic neologisms to make its beliefs sound like they're actually important. In fact, its treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary. Google has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. While Google might not replace law and order with anarchy and despotism per se, we can never retu
Don't visit untrusted pr0n sites on a Windows machine. Make a Linux partition for such things.
History. Can you find a dirtier bunch outside jail? Start with an OS made by people who consider your desktop something they can use to sell advertising space to the highest bidder. Couple that with M$'s notorious efforts to discredit previous competitors and penchant for lying about it with very expensive PR campaigns. From bogus error messages for competitor's programs to fake letters to lawmakers, M$ has done it all. There's no technically competent person who would put any dirty trick beyond M$.
Motive. They hate Google. Google is a double competitive threat to them. Google has, for a long time, been a better technical resource than Microsoft's or anyone else's manuals and resource pages. The is especially true for free software issues. Now they Google is moving into territory M$ thinks they own. The hatred is personal, with people like Steve Balmer throwing chairs and Bill Gates saying sour things when asked questions. It's weird but that's how control freaks act. This little trojan attacks Google's credibility and strikes at one of their funding mechanism.
Means. M$ has money and knowledge.
Opportunity. M$ has extensive computer networks. They can make these things themselves or pay other to do so anytime.
Now nuts. It's much easier to think that this is yet another spamming tool that seeks the weakest and most widely dispersed target, M$'s crappy OS. Yet successful another high profile attack is not what M$ wants. Nor can they really want to destroy the world of online advertising. M$ wants to sell server software themselves.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.