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Experiment proves that people want to infect their own systems

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By Steve Ragan May 17, 2007, 15:05 GMT


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ChrisMay 18th, 2007 - 00:50:37

The clicks were probably from other secutrity firms checking out the site.

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colalaMay 18th, 2007 - 06:36:52

Lastly, the Google Adwords campaign ran for six months.


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darkmatterMay 18th, 2007 - 10:54:34

We have a lot of users on our company network who never read the question or understand the consequences of selecting yes when prompted to allow software and plugin's to be installed on their laptops or allowing software to access the internet through their personal firewalls.

I suspected that if they were prompted 'do you want to install this key logger so we can read your bank account password and withdraw funds' that they would click yes. Now I know the answer.

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