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O.P. Plus! website promoting dodgy adware via Google Ads
Temporarily turned off adblock and saw this. Is this acceptable?

The advert:
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The download page:
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WLM + Adware:
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Threat details:
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06-08-2010 06:38 PM
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RE: Plus! website promoting dodgy adware via Google Ads
Those kind of ads unfortunately have been around for years now. Adsense doesn't seem to care :(.

Do not pay or send SMS/text messages to download Live Messenger or Messenger Plus!

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RE: Plus! website promoting dodgy adware via Google Ads
They likely shouldn't but in the above scenario you would assume that people have already downloaded WLM and are now downloading Messenger Plus!. But agreed they are not acceptable.
06-08-2010 06:42 PM
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RE: Plus! website promoting dodgy adware via Google Ads
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They likely shouldn't but in the above scenario you would assume that people have already downloaded WLM and are now downloading Messenger Plus!. But agreed they are not acceptable.
There are many people that think Messenger Plus! is the messenger client out there :P
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O.P. RE: Plus! website promoting dodgy adware via Google Ads
Well I guess we have to hope people don't click them or are at least smart enough to have some security which will tell them they're doing wrong.

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They likely shouldn't but in the above scenario you would assume that people have already downloaded WLM and are now downloading Messenger Plus!. But agreed they are not acceptable.
There are many people that think Messenger Plus! is the messenger client out there :P
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RE: Plus! website promoting dodgy adware via Google Ads
Thanks guys for raising awareness.  There are also sites pointing users to old or  versions of Messenger Plus! Live.  There's no reason someone should have to pay to download Messenger Plus! Live (when they can get the most updated and safest version for free).

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