A recent report from Techshout warns about a possible new Trojan virus targeting Google AdSense. The malicious code apparently replaces legitimate AdSense listings with fake ones, formatted to look like the real deal.
The virus was originally discovered by Indian publisher Raoul Bangera, who reported the problem to Google. Bangera logged the incident with screenshots and log files, which he sent over to Google for analysis.
The AdSense team stated, “We can confirm from the screenshots that these are fake Google ads, formatted to look like legitimate ads. We agree that this phenomenon is likely the result of malicious software installed on your computer.â€
The Trojan loads itself onto unsuspecting computers from infected web sites. If users click on the fake ads, they are forwarded through a number of ad pages to a final ad farm page.
AdSense lets publishers display Google ads on their own websites. At this point, the virus only seems to affect smaller publishers.
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