http://www.cheatad.com/2006/05/23/adsense-clickbots-on-the-rage/ Click-frauds on AdSense and such Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:36:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.cheatad.com/2006/05/23/adsense-clickbots-on-the-rage/#comment-205 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:14:05 +0000 http://www.cheatad.com/2006/05/23/adsense-clickbots-on-the-rage/#comment-205 [...] The clickbot network, first detected by Panda Software last month, was designed to swindle Pay-Per-Click advertisements like AdSense and YPN. Panda didn’t name any advertisement network in the press release. Fraudsters set up a number of Internet addresses and posted a series of (genuine) syndicated search-engine advertisements. The bot network -comprised of more than 50,000 zombie machines infected by Clickbot.A – was programmed to access these Internet addresses and to register clicks on the syndicated advertisements. The fraudsters received a slice of the ‘pay per click’ advertising revenues even though the original advertisers did not receive any visits to their sites. [...] […] The clickbot network, first detected by Panda Software last month, was designed to swindle Pay-Per-Click advertisements like AdSense and YPN. Panda didn’t name any advertisement network in the press release. Fraudsters set up a number of Internet addresses and posted a series of (genuine) syndicated search-engine advertisements. The bot network -comprised of more than 50,000 zombie machines infected by Clickbot.A – was programmed to access these Internet addresses and to register clicks on the syndicated advertisements. The fraudsters received a slice of the ‘pay per click’ advertising revenues even though the original advertisers did not receive any visits to their sites. […]

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