Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:07 PM
sandi
The AOL advertisement network has DEFINITELY been infiltrated by winfixer
Winifixer has DEFINITELY infilitrated the AOL advertisement network.
Just like last night, I saw a systemdoctor redirect the first time I accessed this URL and I blogged about it
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/technical-goof-wipes-out-38-billion/20070320140609990001
I saw exactly the same thing tonight. They are being damned sneaky - unlike the MSN advertisement outbreak, when I could track down the ad and trigger winfixer behaviour very quickly, I'm only seeing the Winfixer advertisement on the AOL advertisement network sporadically, often only the first time that I load a URL - from that time on there is no repetition until a good 24 hours has passed. Considering AOL's readership, even *one* advertisement per day per reader is one hell of a user pool to fish in.
Screenshots of the malware with URLs is below. It is now time to track these b**tards down and get them *out* of that advertisement network, just like with did with the MSN network.
I am not confident that we will be able to get AOL to respond to this problem as quickly as MSN.
We are, once again, dealing with a hostile Flash ad (note the reference to CACHEBUSTER).
