AOL and Winfixer- the saga continues

As of 10 minutes ago the AOL advertising network is still compromised by winfixer infiltration.  I visited http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/technical-goof-wipes-out-38-billion/20070320140609990001 and was immediately redirected to a SystemDoctor site. 

Unfortunately Wireshark crashed with a runtime error before I could save the capture evidencing the redirect - damn it.

Ok, I'm going back to using Microsoft Network Monitor - I am NOT happy that I lost that capture.

AOL should be ashamed of themselves.  Microsoft/MSN shut down the dangerous advertisements within hours of being notified of the problem.  **WHY** is it taking AOL so long to act??

Published Mon, Mar 26 2007 9:39 by sandi

Comments

# re: AOL and Winfixer- the saga continues

Monday, March 26, 2007 4:12 PM by Joseph

Sandi,

Please contact me, I'll do my best to cooperate with AOL.

# re: AOL and Winfixer- the saga continues

Monday, March 26, 2007 4:26 PM by Joseph

Sandi,

If you know anyone at AOL, please advise. I'll do my best to cooperate.

# re: AOL and Winfixer- the saga continues

Monday, June 18, 2007 4:08 PM by Gary

Winfixer has also infiltrated careerbuilder.com as I get redirects from their site to www.systemdoctor.com.  I have notified their customer service but unlikely to get anykind of respose.  I wish companies would take this malware more seriously.

# re: AOL and Winfixer- the saga continues

Monday, June 18, 2007 7:14 PM by sandi

Hi Gary,

I believe you've been in touch with me before about careerbuilder, but so far I have been unable to reproduce what you see, and without proof I can't go after the advertising network :(