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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. Goatse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Goatse!

    Everyone loves a good goatse.

  2. Re:Underserved group by Gordonjcp · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the Debian users, it's easy: http://debianplanet.org/?from=405

  3. Re:Huh? by simong · · Score: 2, Informative

    As far as I can see they'll take your money for as long as you're willing to pay it. Your ad might fall back on to the second page of results but you're paying for the impressions as well as the clicks.

  4. Re:Why does it matter what OS they were using? by Faylone · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe you're looking for http://seenonslash.com/

  5. Re:It's hardly a surprise by repvik · · Score: 2, Informative

    Worst case isn't "complete reinstall". It's "complete reinstall, and remove BIOS to reflash on another board". There are viruses that reflashes your BIOS rendering your PC unbootable.

  6. Re:How many slashdotters by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Informative
    Arguably, you wouldn't want to use Internet Explorer for that. 80% of the visit to the site were made with IE. Here is a quote :

    Here is a breakdown: IE 5.5 1
    IE 6.0 286
    IE 7.0 48
    Safari (419.3) 1
    Opera 9.01 1
    Opera 9.10 1
    Firefox 1.0 7
    Firefox 1.5.0.7 9
    Firefox 1.5.0.8 2
    Firefox 1.5.0.9 3
    Firefox 2.0 3
    Firefox 2.0.0.1 6
    Firefox 2.0.0.2 1
    Firefox 2.0.0.3 21
    SeaMonkey 1.1 2
    AdsBot-Google 24

    Total 416
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    The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
  7. Re:Badsense by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sad thing is that using something more enticing like "Free boobs this way" would send millions of clueless Joe Windowses your way... I can see the advert now:-

    Free boobies for all!

    Cute booby chicks for your delectation! aff

    en.wikipedia.org Don't forget the penduline tits! And of course for those with more, erm, "eccentric" tastes, there's also tits of the bearded variety...