Latest Google news reports regarding the study company has conducted with collaboration of researchers at University of California. As per the research, 5% of visitors who come to Google-related sites and obtain its services have preinstalled ad injectors.
As far as malware are concerned, ad injectors may appear to most of us as a rather generous one. What they do is putting an ad on the Google Search page that you use. That ad does not belong to the page in the first place. That might be annoying for you but you won’t consider it dangerous. But Superfish, residing in Lenovo were creating tremendous harm, ad injectors are pretty much the same. The research was based on page views across the Google sites, which were numbered 100 million. The Google sites were accessed via Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox. About third of the ad injectors that were experienced were declared malware.
Often ad injectors are packaged with legit software. The developers and sites that provide you download, see this as an easy and extra money making opportunity for them. It is most likely that a lot of us have downloaded such ad injectors unintentionally.
According to the Google news, researchers from University of California and Google discovered that ad injectors have been made available on all the major browsers and platforms. Among the 5 percent of users who have pre-installed ad injections, one-third had four of those ad injectors running concurrently and half of them had been running two instantaneously. It occurs to us that there is large group of users who are more likely to fall for such ad injectors than others.
According to the Google personnel, the social giant is publishing this research and quantitative analysis in detail so the people can be more careful and also aware of such harmful malware, also to create more awareness regarding ad injectors.
Provided that such programs inoculate themselves between the website and browser, further they change the code of the website; browsers are unable to differentiate between the legit ads and the ones that are not.
According to Google, it has banned 192 Chrome extensions that have been reportedly harmed 14 million users as per the findings of the research. It is now on the verge of bringing in use the same techniques which the researchers had made use of to scan further the Chrome extensions in the Chrome Web Store.
Google’s policies regarding the advertising and extension are clear about banning the misleading ad injectors but most of the organizations that are behind building them don’t consider the rules while developing them.
Until and unless Google doesn’t find a subtle and technical solution to this issue, the ad injectors aren’t going to go away forever.
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