“Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”
Would you click on this Google ad?
No? Sure? Because 409 persons did!
How do I know? Because I’ve been running this Google Adwords campaign for 6 months now.
Last fall, my attention got caught by a small book on Google Adwords at our local library. Turns out it’s very easy to setup an ad and manage the budget. You can start with a couple of euros per month. And that gave me an idea: this can be used with malicious intend. It’s a way to get a drive-by download site on the first page of a search result (FYI, I’ve reported on other ways to achieve this). So I started an experiment…
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