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Offline Nemesis

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"Click here to be infected"
« on: May 17, 2007, 12:24:09 pm »
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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. 
« Last Edit: May 17, 2007, 08:57:57 pm by IKV Nemesis »
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Re: "Click here to be infected"
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2007, 02:06:42 pm »
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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Re: "Click here to be infected"
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2007, 02:39:14 pm »
=P No clickie the linkey.
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Re: "Click here to be infected"
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2007, 05:51:50 pm »
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Re: "Click here to be infected"
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2007, 09:01:11 pm »
Quote from: Dash Jones on May 17, 2007, 02:06:42 pm
Naw, I figured you must be posting something that wouldn't infect us on the forums

Its nice to be trusted. 

Quote from: Dash Jones on May 17, 2007, 02:06:42 pm
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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Re: "Click here to be infected"
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2007, 08:02:38 am »
I'm on a mac and I'm curious to see the site lol
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