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Re: PPC Advertising, Click Fraud, and Its Effect on Search Engines

Paul Vader (pv+usenet@pobox.com)
Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:23:54 -0000

gds@best.com writes:

>> Consider a "fleet" of 500,000 "zombie" PCs, scattered across three
>> continents.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: As for myself, I cannot really picture
> 'five hundred thousand zombie computers scattered across three
> continents'. If so, under whose coordination? A gang of crackers all

Have you been paying ANY attention to what's been happening on the
internet in the last several years? Zombies and botnets are created,
among other reasons, precisely to make money off sites that pay per
click, by directing compromised PCs to go there. Anyone who's ever had
the misfortune of witnessing a spyware infestation has seen this for
themselves. *

* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.

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