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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. 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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