Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
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Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#2You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories.
The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware.
There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#3You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware. There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
At least you can get some projects crap-free from https://ninite.com/ The notable exception is Flash. The only place you can get up-to-date, crap-free versions of Flash is this URL: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.htm... and scroll down, don't use the big "Download Adobe Flash Player" button on the right.
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#4I wonder how this compares to the % of users that have ad blockers installed. Ad injectors might be a bigger hit on their revenue than ad blockers.
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#5You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware. There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
These companies are exploiting trust for the sake of making money. We all lose when the trust is destroyed just for a few to make few extra dollars. Privatized profits, socialized losses.
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#6Original article: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.nl/2015/03/out-with-unw...
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#7You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware. There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories.
Like Sourceforge? http://blog.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sour...
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#8You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware. There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
> You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Sourceforge injects adware in to downloads for open source projects. Trust is more subtle than open source/closed source.
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#9You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware. There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
> There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
... including a YC company called InstallMonetizer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
Re: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed
#10Well maybe they should stop allowing download sites that offer ad infected downloads to buy the top spots on the google search results page? https://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png
Adwords is probably one of the main infection vectors for malware these days.
Previous rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229