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Monday, May 21, 2007
Get your free virus here
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here! drive-by-download.info.”
What a deal and it’s free too. The ad online promised to infect your computer with a virus.
It was an offer that people just couldn’t pass up. More than 400 computer users clicked to get the virus (since the Web site was a test by a researcher, no computers really were infected.)
Most computer security experts that I know think that the weak link in security is always going to be the user. I find it hard to disagree.
Another thing to note - the fellow paid Google to get better placement in search results for his ad. So - at the very least - it doesn’t seem like there was stringent checking by Google.
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