Click Here To Infect Your PC! 215
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."
How many slashdotters (Score:5, Funny)
It's hardly a surprise (Score:5, Funny)
Sad... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's hardly a surprise (Score:5, Funny)
Consider your average spyware/virus akin to chlamydia or syph, while the really nasty stuff is more like aids/herpes...
Granted, you can't reformat your body and get rid of it, but if you consider a reformat more along the lines of reincarnation...
Re:Sad... (Score:5, Funny)
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ONLY? (Score:4, Funny)
Next time call it "hot chicks with huge tits want to give you some love virus". I predict a
Time for a crusade! (Score:3, Funny)
We need to go on a crusade to teach people how to surf porn safely, such as avoiding using a firewall on a microsoftie, but to make sure you have a hardened system first!
For once I have an excuse... (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft sucks. Users are idiots.
Re:Time for a crusade! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How many slashdotters (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not paranoid!! They are out to get me!!
Re:You pay all this money for AV software.. (Score:5, Funny)
$12.50 x 4 = $50
click_me.exe (Score:4, Funny)
the other 5 percent would right click and select open.
Badsense (Score:5, Funny)
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Cute booby chicks for your delectation! aff
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Wait.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Goatse! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sad... (Score:2, Funny)
And of course, no *nix users would EVER do that.....
Re:How many slashdotters (Score:4, Funny)
My PC is still virus-free? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How many slashdotters (Score:5, Funny)
Curiosity killed....wait free beer?
Re:Sad... (Score:5, Funny)
Luckily I was never questioned about the matter and by the time most people caught on, Antivirus definitions were updated to detect the Sub7 stub.
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Re:Attempted Infection == Infection (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Analogy (Score:3, Funny)
This is why people should stop using windows!