Unbeknownst to the PC owner, the malicious software

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Is it reliable: a brief history of the fight against behavioral manipulation Yandex began to take into account behavioral metrics when ranking resources in 2009. Almost immediately, a market for cheating behavioral metrics appeared. The largest search engine in Runet began to fight it. Episode 1: Operation Clear Search In mid-2011, Yandex gave its first major battle to behavioral factors cheaters. During the campaign, dubbed "Clean Search," the search engine punished more than 1,000 sites found using manipulative tactics.


The affected resources used well-known cheating services, including Perfectseo, Userator, philippines email list Megaseo, Megaindex, and others. Yandex representatives reported the existence of a network of infected computers, or a botnet, which was used to inflate behavioral metrics. The owners sent commands to the botnet that forced individual zombie computers to imitate user actions. visited the search engine site, sent a request, went to the desired site, and performed the necessary actions.


Yandex did not report whether the botnet was associated with the above-mentioned services that offered the behavioral factor inflating service. Consider the resources required to create a botnet. First, a program must be written to imitate the user's actions. Second, this program must be installed undetected on thousands of computers. Third, it must be hidden from antivirus software. Fourth, zombie computers must be controlled remotely.