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Clickbots vs AdSense and Others

May 20, 2006 · Filed Under Contextual Advertising
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One of the problem faced by Google Adsense is click fraud. Google still monitors clickthrough rate. That’s one of the reasons you are forbidden to ever reveal your clickthrough rate to anyone. I guess in the near future, small publisher that generates little traffic is going to lose their adsense account.

“PandaLabs has detected a network of computers infected with the bot Clickbot.A, which is being used to defraud ‘pay per click’ systems, registering clicks automatically and providing lucrative returns for the creators. According to the data collected so far, the scam is exploiting a global network comprising more than 34,000 zombie computers (those infected by the bot).

The bots are controlled remotely through several Web servers. This allows the perpetrators to define, for example, the web pages on which the adverts are hosted or the maximum number of clicks from any one IP address in order not to arouse suspicions.”

Source : HNS