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Click Here To Infect Your PC!

Posted by kdawson on from the proving-a-point dept.

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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  1. How many slashdotters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then went and clicked on the link in the article? :P

    1. Re:How many slashdotters by Ceriel+Nosforit · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean amongst the approximately 0.16% who actually RTFA? :o)

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    2. Re:How many slashdotters by jstretch78 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Click Here To Infect Your PC!" == "NAKED NAKED NAKED LADIES FREE BEER"

      Curiosity killed....wait free beer?

    3. Re:How many slashdotters by GuldKalle · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, there is a certain logic to it anyways. Normally when you click a pr0n-link, you get infected with a virus. So if you click a virus-link, you would expect to see porn.

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  2. Re:You pay all this money for AV software.. by seven7h · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like we have a member of the 0.16% here on /.
    $12.50 x 4 = $50

  3. Re:Sad... by ZOMFF · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's true. Free porn is a great way to get people to click on things they usually wouldn't click on. While I was in college about 8 years ago, I set up a porn share from my computer that was password protected. I also included a file called GET_PORN_PASSWORD.EXE which popped up a box with the password. The EXE also installed the client stub for Sub7 (a type of back-orafice program). Since Sub7 was fairly new, none of the antivirus software picked up on it. Over the next 24 hours I had pretty much 8,000 machines that I could fully remote, pull data off of, log key strokes, etc (my personal favorite was opening the cdrom drive and playing a "FEED ME" wave file).

    Luckily I was never questioned about the matter and by the time most people caught on, Antivirus definitions were updated to detect the Sub7 stub.

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