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RxBot Has Click Fraud Capability
October 17th, 2007
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I came across a interesting post about click bots, in particular a new bot to me RXBOT which has a visit command, Read the full post on Bardissi Enterprises, but the relevant section for anyone interested in click fraud is shown below
Nowadays, the lure of illegal easy money motivates most bot herders. Our video shows how crooks can force their bots to click on revenue-generating Google ad words. As another example, Rxbot has a simple-yet-effective .visit command. If you send your bots this command, followed by a URL, they silently visit that URL. Here, silently is a technical term meaning the bot victim will not see her computer visit the URL. The visit happens in the background, without any web browser involvement. So, imagine you have 100,000 bots. With one command you could easily force all those bots to visit an online poll, vote, or game. If you wanted ToneDeaf UglyDork to win American Idol, you could command all your bots to visit the American Idol voting page and submit a vote. Since every vote would come from a different IP address, the results would look legitimate. And if the flaws in American e-voting aren?t fixed before 2008, bots just might elect ToneDeaf UglyDork as President, too.
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