My Friend Told Me That Your Computer Will Get A Virus If You Have A Google Adsense Account; Is This True?
Posted by Adsense Blog on July 5th, 2009 at 02:36am
When my friend and I got together for our weekly business meeting tonight, I told him about how I recently created a google adsense account hoping to make extra money by pay per clicks, that is, earning ad revenue. I asked him what he thought about it and if he had any experiences with it or ever heard of it before and he told me that he had one of the worst experiences with it. He said that some of the ads placed on his site eventually became infected with viruses and eventually led to pornography sites. Supposedly a hacker who lives an hour away from him created a virus and it spread to his account, and anytime that he opened up his internet explorer, he’d get 10 pop up ads to the point where it was running so slow and he couldn’t do anything with his computer. Eventually his hard drive got affected. This was even happening after he canceled his account. My friend owns a PC and his browser is internet explorer. When I told him that I have a MAC platform and have a FireFox Mozilla browser, he said that there’s a lower risk for viruses. I’m still concerned, so I canceled my google adsense account, but I’m scared that my computer will be attacked by viruses pretty soon. I’m taking the time to back up any important files I have on jump drive. I freaked out when my internet was running a tad bit below par tonight. So I need to know if it’s actually true that your computer will get infected if you have google adsense? And what good or bad experiences came out of anyone else who has a google adsense account? Any input is fine. Thanks.
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6 Comments for My Friend Told Me That Your Computer Will Get A Virus If You Have A Google Adsense Account; Is This True?
1. imisidro | July 5th, 2009 at 5:32 am
That’s pure nonsense.
His computer got a virus — but not through Adsense
I have been with Adsense since June 2003, and never even heard of Google Adsense spreading viruses around. Do you really think that the forums — and eventually the media — will not talk about Adsense spreading a virus?
And how can a hacker put virus only in HIS adsense account?
What good or bad experiences from Adsense? Some website owners earn more than $100,000 a year from Adsense, with a few even earning in the millions. If that’s not a good thing, I don’t know what is
Don’t believe this nonsense
2. lifeplay | July 5th, 2009 at 9:34 am
No such thing. I use adsense for more then years and my computer is safe……
3. Make Money Online Keafy.com | July 5th, 2009 at 10:23 am
No its never happened to my adsense ads but…http://www.google.com/search?client=fire…
I personally dont like adsense because people recognize the ads and dont click on them unless you disguise them a little as regular links, but then google will make you “undisguise them” so its a no win situation in my opinion unless you have a website thats getting thousands of visitors a day from the search engines. If your visitors are coming from links to your site and not search engines, you can message me because Id rather not spend time explaining how to make income out of that unless it applies to you.
4. dismantl | July 5th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Actually it wont make it any easier for you to get viruses. Infact everything is done “server side” or not on your computer but on googles computer. I dont think the largest search engine site would make their advertising programs give everyone viruses. If it did you would see it in the news. How adsense works is a google robot reads your website looking for keywords such as “flowers”, or “electronics”. Then it sends this information to the google server. Google then automatically takes advertisements from peolpe who are paying to use the service and places those text ads on your website. Now unless you own a webserver at home, adsense never even touches your home computer. So dont be afraid, go ahead and make yourself some money. Also, there is free antivirus software out there you can download such as AVG or avast if you are still concerned.
5. hell_ben | July 5th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
This is an issue with the advertisers adds that they submit. Google does try to prevent things like this, and you should be able to limit the adds to adds that are actually going to be relevent to your website, which tends to lower the incidence of this. The problem they face is that unfortunately there are too many unscrupulous porn brokers on the net, and unfortunately the same ones who believe in installing viruses to increase thier business tend to be the ones who will lie and cheat to get the viruses into the add frames. I believe there are ways to tell the systems to not allow activex in the adds, but this may block some adds from working. The only time YOU will get the viruses is if you have visited your site and viewed the adds yourself, which you will tend to do. This really comes down the secuirity on the advertising service, some are better than others, if you do your research you may be able find another reputable advertising banner people who check the adds more thouroughly themselves, but it really is down to the people who have posted the adds.
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