Spyware through searchengines

Johannes Beus
Published: 09.02.2006
Johannes Beus
Johannes Beus ist Gründer und Geschäftsführer von SISTRIX.
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Benjamin Edelman wrote down a few interesting discoveries on the topic of how spyware is being distributed through searchengines. According to his calculations, Google and Yahoo are making 26 million US-dollars a year with advertisement clicks for software (screensavers, etc.) that contain spyware.

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