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Hi all,
    There are many BitTorrent clients which are malware supported. Three of them are Torrent101, Torrentq, and Bitroll. They are heavily advertised on BitTorrent sites. They lure newbies to downloading these clients, and mess up their systems.

    TorrentFreak, the famous torrents blog and community, envisaged a new means to fight these malware clients. They utilized Google Adwords campaigns to buy ad space on Bitroll, Torrentq and Torrent101 websites.

    These ads displayed “Malware warning - Just so you know, Torrent101 installs Malware”.

    Quite effective. These ads, in just 4 days, produced 20,000 views, and thousands of clickthroughs. Thus thousands were educated, and were saved from installing Malware.

    Its a very effective, and innovative means to fight off bad society. Now the question is, how many people will buy such ads in competing websites, and drive away traffic with false notes. I hope that such methods will be employed by more and more people to spread awareness, and raise the overall quality of the general web.

[tags]torrents, malicious, fought, adsense, google[/tags]