Years ago, a group of myself and friends used a forum that had advertising, and all at the same time alot of the members had their pc's infected / shutdown while those with proper anti-virus were fine. Just now, on my own site which is nearly ready for deployment, kaspersky kicked up a red flag: Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Access denied The requested URL cannot be provided The requested object at the URL: [removed not important] Threat detected: object infected HEUR:Trojan.Script.Generic Message generated: 10:20:26 PM So if i use adsense, will i be potientially infecting my users? Or should i only be concerned with total revenue? Should i report this issue to google? (never done it so be interested to know what steps to take) Should i just not use adsense at all and use a different system?
I think you should immediately take some action in cleaning the virus. Probably, your hosting guys might help. If you don't take care of this, your site will have a red flag in search results which is not a good sign. Secondly, No, with adsense you won't infect your visitors with virus and neither your earnings will be impacted.
my site has no virus, its not even deployed yet, simply when testing it on my local computer kaspersky blocks the ads from showing as they have trojans. Its not all the ads, but say 1 in 5 page refreshes has a virus advertisement.
Kaspersky has a history of false positives when it comes to Adsense. That said, a week or so ago a user of mine was also experiencing Kaspersky warnings for some ads on my site. It is possible, though unlikely, that your users could get infected through an ad running on your site. The ad would most likely have to be a flash ad, which would allow the advertiser to potentially run scripts or whatnot on the user's PC when the ad is loaded on your site. These are called "malvertisements". I would recommend seeing if you can get the ad's URL and block it using the competing sites feature of adsense.
here is a screenshot: http://photohost.info/images/621adsense_virus.jpg so the page loads 100% normally, its just that when a specific ad is displayed, that ad itself is blocked. thanks bm777, ill look into blocking that ad.
If it is only your own local computer that has a problem then your website with adsense on it should be fine.
@xtremers, the ad was blocked by kaspersky, so whatever it was got past googles screening process. as long as my users are safe then im happy.
there are no other scripts, its 100% html and css designed in dreamweaver, and if you looked at the screenshot, you would understand that kaspersky blocked the ad and nothing else.