Adsense serving up adware and virus sites....

Why?

[wonderboy]

I recognised the URL on one of my adsense ads from a popup I had been getting... If it is ok to alert others and maybe ASA about this, the site in question is:

<snip>

Don't visit the site, you will be greeted with a repetitive dialip popup, which eventually may lead to adware being installed on your computer (don't want to test it fully to see if this is definately the source, but I am fairly sure).

I thought Adsense moderated the sites that went into circulation, surely this is against their rules?

Have blocked the ad myself, just warning others that it may concern...

W.

[edited by: Jenstar at 5:13 pm (utc) on April 23, 2004]
[edit reason] NO URLS as per TOS, please! [/edit]

[Jenstar]

Report it to the AdSense team. Chances are it was approved, then the dialup pop-up was added after the fact.

[wonderboy]

Aww.. what about the other webmasters on here that are serving it up to their visitors, surely they have a right to know?

W.

[Jenstar]

Reporting an advertiser gone bad will result in it being removed from Adwords within the day, if there is found to be a problem. We cannot "out" sites here, as per the TOS.

[wonderboy]

okie dokie, been in circulation for a few days I think, so just thought I would point it out to fellow webmasters, your visitors may have been clicking on ads to be greeted by a dialer.