Thursday, December 20, 2007

Trojan Overwrites Google Ads

A malware program is replacing Google ads with other advertising, according to PC World.

Google is losing ad revenue because of it. Publishers who use Google ads could lose their fractional income for readers who are infected. But since Google is also affected.

I bet they come up with a fix (the program attacks the hosts file on local computers) faster than they solve the click fraud problem.

Google is the new Microsoft, so it's not surprising that the company will be targeted by virus writers. In the PC space, if you didn't team up with MS in the 90s, your chance of success was about that of the Miami Dolphins today. The same is happening in marketing and advertising online now. So this is probably just the beginning of attacks on the company.

Posted By John Gartner at 09:50 AM
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