With the mentioned software, clicking on the ads link is automated meaning the user of the PTC site will login into their member page and then activate the program. When the user pushes the "start" button, the program will scan for ads link and if present, will "click" on the link. This will automatically activate the link to open up the advertiser's promotional page and earn the click commission. The user don't even have to look at the screen (or those ads), as the process runs in the background.
This practice is not healthy to the PTC community as it deprive honest members from earning commission with all ads links being clicked on by the program. In addition, the advertisers who pay for the visitors traffic to his promotional page will be disappointed to see that most of the traffics originate from the same place, i.e. the cheater's PC. This may resulted in the PTC site owners losing confidence and trust from the advertisers and gradually lose new advertising contracts. This eventually will kill the PTC site and their members will never see their commission get paid.
The individual who created the program has been found peddling it for $20.00 and some as cheap as $5.00. The price may look cheap but unknown to the buyer, the program has built-in trojan and malicious codes take poses security risk to the user's PC.
The PTC site owner counters this problem with the following measures to make it difficult for the cheater to capitalized on the program:
- Login page with touring number (CAPTCHA)
- Session time-out
- Dummy ads link that is design to trap auto click
- Required touring number in the ads page
- IP monitoring
With such measures, major PTC site owners are quite successful in flagging cheaters or those attempting to cheat. Thus, investing in Ads Auto Clickers program is definitely not worth the money and the buyer even may loses more money.