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

Scott Dorsey (kludge@panix.com)
19 Apr 2005 16:25:27 -0400

In article <telecom24.172.5@telecom-digest.org>. TELECOM Digest Editor
noted in response to Greg Skinner <gds@best.com>:

>> [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
>> working in concert to cheat some advertiser's competitor, by running
>> up his advertising bill? Seems sort of improbable to me. PAT]

> It's not so hard to imagine if you consider the way viruses are spread
> to launch spam, DDoS attacks, etc. The virus authors or cracker-gangs
> aren't necessarily working to cheat competitors; they're just being
> disruptive.

Five thousand zombie computers scattered across three continents?
We call that Roadrunner.

--scott
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Five _hundred_ thousand, not five
thousand. PAT]

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