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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on May 17, 2007, 12:24:09 pm
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Link to full article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/17/spoof_malware_campaign/)
In an experiment, a security researcher bought a Google ad campaign to promote a site ostensibly offering to infest visitors' Windows PCs with computer viruses. The "click here to be infected" campaign was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times, at a click-through rate of 0.16 per cent or around one in 500. The cost of the six-month campaign was $23, or around 5c per chance to infect a PC.
Now who would click on such an ad? [spoiler]The same ones who clicked on this topic? :screwloose: :banghead:[/spoiler]
Note: Just realized I messed up the link it works now.
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Naw, I figured you must be posting something that wouldn't infect us on the forums, but I did have my hand on the close window buttons just in case you turned hostile.
I was curious as to what you were talking about in the thread.
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=P No clickie the linkey.
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=P No clickie the linkey.
Likewise
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Naw, I figured you must be posting something that wouldn't infect us on the forums
Its nice to be trusted.
but I did have my hand on the close window buttons just in case you turned hostile.
Well almost trusted :)
Fortunately you are right. I would never knowingly do that. I may have a bit of the practical joker in me but not in a harmful way. :)
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I'm on a mac and I'm curious to see the site lol