Comments on: Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients

By: Google

Google — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:36:15 +0000

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By: ..:: LeecherMods ::.. » Malicious BitTorrent Clients: New Coat of Paint, Same Bad Story

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:07:42 +0000

[...] files, leaving them impossible to uninstall, while they still cause numerous popups. In April ran a Google Adwords campaigns on the Bitroll, Torrent101 and Torrentq websites warning users not to install these clients. Even [...]

By: TorrentSpy Advertises Malicious BitTorrent Client | TorrentFreak

TorrentSpy Advertises Malicious BitTorrent Client | TorrentFreak — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:49:38 +0000

[...] April we ran a Google Adwords campaigns on the Bitroll, Torrent101 and Torrentq websites warning users not to install these clients. Even [...]

By: BitTorrent Malware Spreads to Media Players | TorrentFreak

BitTorrent Malware Spreads to Media Players | TorrentFreak — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:24:58 +0000

[...] such as Torrent101, BitRoll, TorrentQ and GetTorrent and have done our very best to let people know about the dangers of using such a [...]

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:47:17 +0000

Rofl the more sites that do this the more the click price will go up and the more money they’ll make.

By: joss

joss — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:37:17 +0000

wow cool guys , respect you guys ! you have save many life’s

By: bad clients go to hell

bad clients go to hell — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:29:21 +0000

That’s really funny!
I was wondering where are the FBI, Swat and all those bunches of saviors of digital rights when this happens?

The people behind those bad clients must be jailed! Oh, I forgot, I think they are RIAA and they are paying for it!

Sorry about the bad english, I hope someone can understand what I’m trying to say!

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Google Åžehri » Adwords’un ilginÃ§ ve zekice kullanÄ±ÅŸÄ± — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:21:59 +0000

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By: Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients at The p2p Blog

Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients at The p2p Blog — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:00:43 +0000

[...] Read [...]

By: Turning the Tables on malware in bittorent software | TechWag

Turning the Tables on malware in bittorent software | TechWag — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:14:05 +0000

[...] Torrent Freak did some social goodness over the last couple of days using Google Adsense. The gist of the story is that there are three supposed (we say supposed because we don’t know for sure) bittorrent clients that have payloads of malware embedded in the client. Unsuspecting bittorrent users will then download the clients and turn over their systems to the people providing the software. They state: Torrent101, Torrentq and Bitroll are three malware supported BitTorrent clients which are heavily advertised on BitTorrent sites. They try to lure naive users into downloading these clients wiith catchy phrases like “We use unique technology to increase the download speed of your torrents”. We decided to turn the tables around and advertised with malware warnings on their websites. Source: Torrent Freak [...]

By: eBait

eBait — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:30:16 +0000

Jeremy2, the best BT client around is probably uTorrent. Just download it here: http://www.nsaneproductions.com/?request=2333430 or http://www.utorrent.com
(BTW, http://www.nsaneproductions.com is a great software portal ;))

By: Google AdWords Ads As Malicious BitTorrents Clients Warning » D’ Technology Weblog: Technology News & Reviews

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:53:39 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak found a clever way to advise the potential users three BitTorrent clients that they include malware. [...]

By: Google Calendar Passwords in The Open, Google Antitrust case, and more Google News

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:48:24 +0000

[...] Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients Torrent101, Torrentq and Bitroll are three malware supported BitTorrent clients which are heavily advertised on BitTorrent sites. They try to lure naive users into downloading these clients wiith catchy phrases like “We use unique technology to increase the download speed of your torrents”. We decided to turn the tables around and advertised with malware warnings on their websites. [...]

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By: 13.vc » Blog Archive » Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:54:22 +0000

[...] We decided to turn the tables around and advertised with malware warnings on their websites.”read more | digg [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:33:33 +0000

Some sites are even inviting the user to download these malware clients to get faster download speeds, like NewTorrents.info.

I think those sites are leading users on purpose to install malware in order to earn some money. Just boycott them !

By: Bogaa

Bogaa — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:14:01 +0000

They tried to advertise on Meganova, we simply gave them a big fuck you. That’s how it is supposed to be!

By: Blah

Blah — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:59:47 +0000

I checked torrent101 and they switched it from ads to public service announcements. You’ll need to convince google that your thing is a PSA (which might not be so hard)

By: Oni

Oni — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:59:05 +0000

Nice one and good work, ;)

By: Jeremy2

Jeremy2 — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:48:31 +0000

There are so many rogue Torrent programs that sound so similar to each other I’m scared to try ANY of them. I’m sticking with my official emule (www.emule-project.net) thank you. If anyone can confirm that there’s a legit BT client (no malware of any kind on it) I’d give BT a try.

By: TorrentFreak used Adsense to fight malicious BitTorrent clients » Blogging India

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:17:53 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak, the famous torrents blog and community, envisaged a new means to fight these malware clients. They [...]

By: Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients « Tons of Fresh News

Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients « Tons of Fresh News — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:00:56 +0000

[...] Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients “Torrent101, Torrentq and Bitroll are three malware supported BitTorrent clients which are [...]

By: jb

jb — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:52:48 +0000

glad i found this website. torrentfreak will officially earn a spot on my mozilla rss toolbar.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:49:31 +0000

link to uTorrent, which we respect and “know”

being uTorrent has been bought now and is proprietary, thinking maybe its trust should be re-earned. just my 2cents.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:10:17 +0000

[quote comment="89035"]great work,

sitenote: Mcafee warns me if I try to enter their sites.[/quote]

That’s good to hear!
What kind of warning?

By: Jasper van Weerd

Jasper van Weerd — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:00:17 +0000

great work,

sitenote: Mcafee warns me if I try to enter their sites.

By: groovie

groovie — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:46:14 +0000

awesome

By: horo

horo — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:13:43 +0000

best for all torrent site owners to do is, and also this we at bitdig.com, that on each torrent info page, we are adding link to uTorrent, which we respect and know. This link say to user about trusted client.

By: Tubed

Tubed — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:45:57 +0000

not bad, pretty funny seeing as how they probably don’t know about this. Hope they get peeved after seeing this lol