From HELSINKI (Reuters) Computer specialist Didier Stevens put up a simple text advertisement on the Internet offering downloads of a computer virus for people who did not have any. Surprisingly, he found as many as 409 people clicking on the ad saying "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" during a 6-month advertising campaign on Google's Adword, said the IT security expert. "Some of them must have clicked on it by mistake. Some must have been curious or stupid," said Mikko Hypponen, head of research at data security firm F-Secure. There was no virus involved, it was an experiment aiming to show these kind of advertising systems can be used for malicious intent, Stevens told Reuters.
That is the dumbest thing I every heard people do >.< ... to go and click on anything that says virus even if it was a prank/test and the person that clicked might have thought it was but wanted to click it anyhow, that just asking for trouble if however there intution is wrong and it was a virus <_< ... its bye bye pc :(
-lol where did you find that funny pic Mav? Perhaps some of the people who clicked on it where computer experts who weren't afraid of a virus as they were confident enough they've shielded their pc good enough.
^...oops... I saw it but I didn't bother to check the site and thought maybe you got it through another site. (it seems you have a lot of sources to provide you with these weird news) -whistle
hhmm .. give me that link with a real virus ... i'm sure i can infect some people's computers here at work. they never lock their computers. hehehe ...
if this was really a virus, i wouldnt mind going to my ex gf's house and install the virus on her comp haha.
that's got mean something especially if he's a laziboi! and to get up and actually go to his ex gf's place!
hahaha thats halarious maybe people were at work when they saw it n just wanted to crash their work computer (i would have clicked it at work.... if my work comp crashes... that means NO MORE WORK!!! YAY!!!!!!
And probably never have to work there every again, as you be SACKED for going to places you shouldn't LMAO
