People Readily Flock to Free Computer Virus

I was amused to read that an advert placed on-line which read “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” was promptly clicked on by hundreds of people. Luckily the clicked advert did not infect the gullible clicker’s computer’s as it was part of a campaign to prove how such on-line adverts can all too easily direct people to malicious content.

Data security firm F-Secure says 409 people clicked on computer specialist Didier Stevens’ ad during a six-month campaign on Google’s Adwords (woah, it works then -some people will click on anything!). A spokesperson for the security firm said “Some of them must have clicked on it by mistake “,”and “Some must have been curious or stupid.”

Maybe both.