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Trojan Targets Adsense

As this article reports it was only a matter of time before it happened. A new Trojan on the block attacks the adsense/adwords scripts that run locally and produce different adverts (sex, diet and viagra...) instead of the proper ones.

"Since the Trojan Horse makes the deceptive ads look like normal Google ads, the program was nearly impossible to detect by the general public. However, Raoul Bangera, an Indian web publisher, discovered the bogus program and contacted the Google AdSense team. Bangera emailed the team a number of cases, including various screenshots, log files of an infected computer and system files as proof. The AdSense team validated the news saying, “We can confirm from the screenshots that these are fake Google ads, formatted to look like legitimate ads. We agree that this phenomenon is likely the result of malicious software installed on your computer.”

Posted by Harry at December 29, 2005 01:47 AM