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Friday, December 21, 2007

Trojan bumps Google ads from Web pages; Security: What will be hot in 2008?

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Trojan bumps Google ads from Web pages

By Jeremy Kirk
A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users. Read full story

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