Google: 5% of Internet users see ads placed by malicious … – PCLab.pl

Google in collaboration with the University of California (Berkeley ) conducted a study, which shows that at least 5% of Internet users visiting the page of Google have computers infected with malware adware type Ad Injector .

Ad Injector is a variant of adware responsible for the placement of sites visited ads, swapping existing advertising to another and blocking the access to specific content creators . As a result of the Ad Injectorów user using a web browser can also be inundated with pop-up windows. Google says that since the beginning of this year has received from users of Chrome over 100,000 complaints in this case.

According to the software giant’s type Ad Injector is a problem not only for users, but also web developers, and of the same advertisers. The problems of the latter are easy to imagine, given that the average surfer probably at least once went to a website with annoying ads that cover your whole content, generate sounds. In the previous decade, enjoyed great popularity ads that literally fled before the cursor, which users tried to close them. Over time, this practice was completed, because the creators of pages on your own skin began to feel that advertising fleeing make resorted mainly the Internet.

Ad Injector in any form may therefore pose a problem also the creator of the website and advertisers, as it can remove those planned and paid for, replacing them with their own. Maybe they just cover the paid advertising and hinder internet users access to the website so effectively that not knowing the true cause of the problem may be to discourage it.

In her research, Google used the records of 100 million go to the website your services. In the analysis of data from the scene around the world, from users on multiple platforms and three key web browsers, so Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The research shows that malware type Ad Injector is present on all operating systems and works on all three browsers. It turns out that more than 5% of Internet users have at least one Ad Injector 2.5% has at least two, and more than 1.6% of at least four.

More analysis showed that the malicious code (eg type of Ad Injector ) with different levels of harm is in the 34% extension for Google Chrome web browser. Already, Google has blocked 192 most dangerous extensions that last harmed more than 14 million users of Chrome. Given the alarming results, Google has decided to amend its rules to use the Chrome Web Store, as well as the security of Chrome, which would minimize the impact of the code adware on the action.