Monday, July 24, 2006
MySpace Delivering Adware
As many as one million computers may have been infected with adware through an advertisement running on MySpace and other websites. The DeckOutYourDeck.com advertisement subversively installed 5 adware programs, and reportedly relayed Internet activities to a website in Turkey.
MySpace has since started to remove the ads, which effected PCs running Firefox versions earlier than 1.5 and Windows users without a recent security patch for image files. There is no word about a removal tool as yet.
During the past weekend MySpace went offline a few times for up to several hours. The company says it lost power because of an outage in LA due to overdemand from a heat wave. Boy, this is one way to get the young'uns to care about global warming.
Just last week MySpace was hit by a Flash worm. The sad truth is where there is a volume of people, there will be malicious folks looking for ways to exploit their computers.
Found via MarketingVox.
MySpace has since started to remove the ads, which effected PCs running Firefox versions earlier than 1.5 and Windows users without a recent security patch for image files. There is no word about a removal tool as yet.
During the past weekend MySpace went offline a few times for up to several hours. The company says it lost power because of an outage in LA due to overdemand from a heat wave. Boy, this is one way to get the young'uns to care about global warming.
Just last week MySpace was hit by a Flash worm. The sad truth is where there is a volume of people, there will be malicious folks looking for ways to exploit their computers.
Found via MarketingVox.
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