More proof that people are morons

[PsyKoh]

Hundreds Click on Google Ad Promising to Infect Their PCs

Would you click on this Google ad?

No? Sure? Because 409 persons did!

How do I know? Because I’ve been running this Google Adwords campaign for 6 months now.

Last fall, my attention got caught by a small book on Google Adwords at our local library. Turns out it’s very easy to setup an ad and manage the budget. You can start with a couple of euros per month. And that gave me an idea: this can be used with malicious intend. It’s a way to get a drive-by download site on the first page of a search result (FYI, I’ve reported on other ways to achieve this). So I started an experiment…

[carfreak67]

10 percent of the US population still thinks that Elvis is alive so I am not surprised at his results.

[davucini]

elvis is alive, he, tupac and jfk are fighting the unseen evils headed by the bastard child of stalin and hitler