Ad-infecting malware affects five million people
Posted on: 08/May/2015 2:52:02 PM - No. of views : (2968)
A recent research carried out by UC Berkley and Google has disclosed that adware has infected over 5 millions IP addresses or users across the globe.
However, according to reports provided by Verge, this number might prove to be an underestimation of the power of adware, because of its capability to avoid tampering sites of big companies for avoiding any type of detection. Furthermore, the report had stated that the study had detected the most infamous and popular ad injector called the �superfish adware, which is said to have impacted page views of over 3.7 millions. When it comes to scams on the web, the most reliable of them all is said to be Ad-injecting malware.
As the computer gets infected, the next thing undertaken by the virus is to drop in new ads into any type of site that is visited by the user, thereby sending back ad revenue to those scammers who are in total control of it. Presently, this malware is the hot topic of discussion in most of the related forums and studies are being undertaken as to the overall impact that it is likely to have on the computer users as well as the sites, which is it impart the revenue on such scammed ads.
