Click Here To Be Infected! (not really but people are just dumb)
 

http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=23163

Click Here to Be Infected? Ad Draws Hundreds of Clicks
By Q Boyer
Monday, May 21, 2007

LUXEMBOURG ? An advertisement posted by a security researcher for the European branch of the IT firm The Contraste Group demonstrates that some surfers will click on just about anything ? even an advertisement that promises to infect their PC with a virus.

Didier Stevens, a security analyst for Contraste, recently ran a six-month ad campaign via Google Adwords in which Stevens tested the notion that some surfers will click virtually anything they come across, regardless of what the ad link promises to deliver.

The text of Stevens' ad asks the viewer ?Is your PC virus-free?? followed by a line that reads, ?Get it infected here!?

According to Stevens, the ad was displayed 259,723 times during the six month period, and was clicked on 409 times, for a click-through rate of 0.16 percent. The campaign cost Didier a total of $23, at a rate of $.06 per click ? and per potentially exploited machine.

?I?m sure I could get much more traffic with a higher Google Adwords budget and a better designed ad,? Stevens wrote on his blog hosted by WordPress.com.

To execute his experimental keyword campaign, Stevens first registered the domain drive-by-download.info, reasoning that .info domains are ?notorious for malware hosting.?

For the Adwords campaign, Stevens bid on several combinations of the words ?drive by download,? and pointed the links at his .info domain, logging visits to a page that simply displayed the message ?Thank your for your visit!!?

?I designed my ad to make it suspect, but even then it was accepted by Google without problem and I [have] no complaints to date,? Stevens said.

According to Stevens' log of user agent strings, 98 percent of those who clicked the ad were running Microsoft Windows, with 69.9 percent browsing via Internet Explorer 6.

Stevens said that while it might be tempting to conclude that the people who clicked the ad ?were all stupid Windows users,? it?s not clear to him why anyone would click such a listing.

?[T]here is no way to know what motivated them to click on my ad,? Didier wrote. ?I did not submit them to an IQ test.?

wow people are REALLY that stoopid. :(

these are the same people joining adult sites

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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amazing ....

i bet thats spyders or bots, what does google care about finding and eliminating hits like those? get less ad revenue?

quentin doesn't know that?

interesting

Hence the reason I posted this yesterday.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=735120

We should devlope a friendly virus that removes mal ware for people's computers.

Two things happening there:
1)click fraud in action
2)people interested in what the catch was, knowing that no real malware would advertise like that.

Actually, if you check out current infections by the "virus" called spyblocker, it is a fake anti-virus that comes up and warns you to download something to "clear in the infection". Now if you are smart enough to know this is spyware, these guys have you covered too, because they have worked hard to seed things like yahoo answers with misleading information that could encourage you to actually download WORSE software that will infect your machine further.

A friend of mine got this last night, within 10 minutes she had 32 instances of ZLOB on her machine. Fuckers. Total social hack as well.