Comments on: Trojan Targets Google Text Based Adverts

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:52:51 +0000

Its amazing that a hacker/group of hackers was able to bypass one of the biggest websites on the internet and replace the ads with their own trojans. I would be willing to bet that sometime soon a company like microsoft, yahoo, google, etc will get hacked by a group and there will be some sort of malware breakout.

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:25:03 +0000

Sorry also for cutting your ad revenue darknet, but the google adservers are permanently on my blocklist. If i do accidentally follow any duff links, i get AVG going in the background, and poke my other self-defence stuff.
But not following links unless you trust the site it points at is the safest method available for avoiding trojans/virii

By: goodpeople

goodpeople — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:16:27 +0000

I’m with Sir Henry. Just don’t click on the ads.

Clicking on ads will only get you on more spamlists.

By: Ian Kemmish

Ian Kemmish — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:54:53 +0000

It sounds like anyone using an ad-blocker which intercepts URLs before they ever get to the host look-up stage (such as PithHelmet for Safari) should avoid being misdirected to the malicious sites.

In fact, such an ad-blocker presumably protects against these malicious ads even better than it does against others with URLs which simply point to servers owned by the hackers, since Google’s ad server will already be in the ad-blocker’s list of rules.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:26:07 +0000

One thing that I do to help maintain a safe existence on the web is to simply not click on any google text ads. I have only ever clicked a handful and really do not feel the need, no matter how appealing they may be (sorry Darknet, for not helping with your ad revenue). But, I am only one person and know that the general population is certain to click on these ads since people still seem to make a fair amount of coin from them.