Nwe Delhi: Google has revealed that about five per cent of Internet users visiting Google's sites and services have at least one ad injecting malware installed on their browsers.
The study, conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is based on the analysis of 100 million pageviews across Google's sites from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, and classified about a third of these ad injectors as outright malware'.
It was further discovered that out of those 5 per cent of users that have at least one ad injector installed, one-third evidently had four of them running simultaneously and half were running two.
Google said that it will publish this data to raise awareness about unwanted ad injectors as they encourage unhealthy ecosystem for the users, advertisers, and publishers, a TechCrunch report quoted Google Safe Browsing engineer Nav Jagpal as saying.
Recently, Lenovo was embroiled in a controversy of a similar nature. It's laptops were found to be pre-installed with Superfish, an ad injector that also put the system's encryption at risk.
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