Google Ad Hack
…the bad guys behind the attack appeared to capitalize on an odd feature of Google’s sponsored links. Normally, when a viewer hovers over a hyperlink, the name of the site that the computer user is about to access appears in the bottom left corner of the browser window. But hovering over Google’s sponsored links shows nothing in that area. That blank space potentially gives bad guys another way to hide where visitors will be taken first.
Clive Robinson • May 1, 2007 7:43 AM
It would be pointless telling users not to click on such blank links, they still follow known bad ones that do show. So education is not likley to work.
I guess the answer (for a business) is to block access to non-approved sites, however that raises a whole set of other (managment) issues.
I can think of a couple of ways to reduce the problem BUT… they are not going to be “fool proof” and that is the real problem. If you put in place 99.9% reliable systems to protect people they quickly develop a lack of caution so the .1% will cause them (and you) real pain.