{"id":450,"date":"2007-12-27T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/googles-adsense-program-is-in-danger-by-trojan\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T07:30:15","slug":"googles-adsense-program-is-in-danger-by-trojan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/googles-adsense-program-is-in-danger-by-trojan\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s AdSense Program is in danger by Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Google&#8217;s AdSense program has been the subject of trouble from a Trojan, an antivirus firm BitDefender has announced. According to BitDefender, the virus, named Trojan.Qhost.WU, alters infected computers&#8217; hosts file and redirects the Google AdSense link to a various address. A virus analyst Attila-Mihaly says &#8220;This is a serious situation that damages users and webmasters alike&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Users of adsense are affected as the advertisements and\/or the linked sites might contain malicious code, which a very likely situation is given that they are endorsed using malware in the first place.&#8221; Meanwhile, webmasters are hit because the Trojan grabs the viewers and, as a result, a possible source of revenue from their websites, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the situation, Google commented: &#8220;We have cancelled customer accounts that display ads redirecting users to malicious sites or that advertise a product violating our software principles,&#8221; Reuter&#8217;s reports.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s AdSense program has been the subject of trouble from a Trojan, an antivirus firm BitDefender has announced. According to BitDefender, the virus, named Trojan.Qhost.WU, alters infected computers&#8217; hosts file and redirects the Google AdSense link to a various address. A virus analyst Attila-Mihaly says &#8220;This is a serious situation that damages users and webmasters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}