Clickbot.A Click Fraud Network Dismantled ClickZ reports that the Clickbot.A virus that infected 34,000 machines (last report more than 50,000 PCs) and auto clicked on an unknown amount of PPC ads, has been shut down.
Panda says the central server sending instructions to the zombies, which were infected with the Clickbot.A virus, has been taken offline as a result of the two companies' work. A network of 50,000 remote-controlled zombie computers, which were...
Help Net Security reports that PandaLabs discovered a bot named Clickbot.A, which infected 34,000 computers. The Clickbot.A automatically clicks on search ads, costing advertises hundreds of dollars (or more) for invalid clicks.
Current ones run automatically on a lot of different computers, sometimes owned by the clickbot owner in question, but more often by virus style 'malware' that turns the computer in question into a zombie.
