14 DAY TRIAL // Let's suppose you're browsing a website and you see an invitation to view a free porn clip (naughty but let's admit it, it happens...). What are you doing? You click on it and try to load the movie. But what if an error pops-up and tells you that a proper codec was not found and you're advised to install Google Pack? So, what do you want to do now? You install Google Pack because you want to view the pornographic clip. Sex sells, no matter whether it attracts you directly or through Google Pack. That's right, Google Pack is only a way to bring money to the owner of the page who discovered a simple, smart and malicious way to earn money.
Alex Eckelberry wrote on the Sunbelt Blog that some website owners are inviting consumers to download Google Pack in order to view a porn movie. In case you don't know, webmasters can easily earn money by implementing Google products referrals into their pages and, once a user installs a software, the publisher receives a certain amount of money. But the Mountain View company strictly prohibits this kind of trick to attract users and the websites should be banned very soon.
"In this case, one can assume it pays as well or better to push this legitimate application as it is to push malware (I'm sure that these folks would be pushing malware if the money was there, as it's all about money). Intriguing that Google's high affiliate commissions are in competition with malware," the Sunbelt official wrote.
Sure, installing Google Pack is pretty useful because it contains numerous software solutions such as Google Earth, Norton Security Scan, Google Desktop, Adobe Reader, Skype, StarOffice and many other utilities. But from inviting users to download Google Pack because it's useful to luring them to download it for watching a porn movie there is Google's terms which strictly prohibit these kinds of activities.
"Google has been contacted about this rogue affiliate and I expect the affiliate will be down very rapidly - Google's responses on these matters are very rapid," Alex Eckelberry added.