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“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”

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What would you do if you saw the following Google Adword?

“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”

This Ad was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. That’s a click-through-rate of 0.16%. Would you consider this to be bad? The campaign's costs summed up to a miserable $23 (€17).

Thankfully this ad was created for statistical purposes not with malicious intent.

Didier Stevens wanted to test how easy it is to lure users in clicking on a drive-by download.  To make things easier for the average user, Didier used an evident malicious phrase and still users clicked away.



Now, I'm guessing (and partly hoping) that this post only gets a few hits.
If not...







to tell me WHY you clicked ?!?!


Posted by Giannella De Leonardo

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  1. The X says:
    08/03/2008 09:32:48 AM

    Because I'm in the industry, viruses only infect idiots running ActiveX crap in winblows, I'm of well above average intelligence, and the post was sent to me by somebody who pretty much is across all of the above points as well and whos opinion I innately trust.

    That should do you.

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