Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Slashdot | Click Here To Infect Your PC!

Slashdot | Click Here To Infect Your PC!: "Click Here To Infect Your PC!
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday May 16, @05:47AM
from the proving-a-point dept.
It's funny. Laugh. Security
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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