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Downloadable here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=671355c2-4002-4671-8619-95c96c8a897f&displaylang=en&tm The worldwide average was malware removal from 1 out of every 123 Windows-based computers in the second half of...
Screenshot of diamondharmony.com malvertizement
These criminals, whoever they are, have absolutely no shame. I thought that they were the scum of the earth when they impersonated Oxfam; now they are getting their malvertizements onto popular chidren's sites. As reported by Kimberley - the malvertizements...
Affected versions are 9.0.124.0 and 9.0.115.0. The best analysis that I've seen so far is at SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29386/info The frightening thing about this alert is that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, with...
A new style Dot Tunes advertisement: The adopstools results are here: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=r60Siyiw02bZgpaa When the SWF is displayed on a system it hits the following URLs: traveltray.com/crossdomain.xml and traveltray...
Ok, there are a lot of people out there who are upset at being overcharged and defrauded by bucksbill.com. Just check out the comments here and here . Unfortunately, people are also emailing me directly because they (mistakenly) believe that I and/or...
A comment has been made to this blog warnin that http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/index.shtml has been serving malvertizements during the the past week or so. We're investigating. If anybody sees anything, please let me know.
I received this alert via email: " My girlfriend was surfing boston.com last night and she landed on some nasty code that redirected her to that classic alert bos in the lower left hand corner of the screen. This time is was for XPShield which is...
SEATTLE – A 21-year-old Scottsdale, Ariz., man accused of coercing consumers to buy software that actually turned their computers into spamming machines agreed to a settlement that substantially restricts how he markets software in the future, the Washington...
I am pleased to advise that one of the malvertizements that was appearing at photobucket.com, being the Tokyo Drift malvertizement being distrubted via adbureau.net, has been removed from circulation. As far as I know, the other malvertizements, hosted...
Photobucket has been mentioned several times on this blog because of malvertizements appearing on the site. The most recent outbreak is proving to be problematic, to say the least. Photobucket have been advised several times that there are malvertizements...
Several comments have been posted to my blog recently about a malvertizement problem at mininova.org: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/03/23/1550824.aspx#1601871 http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/03/23/1550824.aspx#1602159...
Once again, communication and cooperation between anti-malvertizement activists around the world has resulted in success. We have found the malicious malvertizements on photobucket.com - Kimberley has the details . The incident has been reported to Photobucket...
Thanks to Susan for the heads up... Cite: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/05/07/compromised-file-in-vietnamese-language-pack-for-firefox-2/ Cite: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432406 Anybody who downloaded and installed the Vietnamese...
I received an email alert overnight warning that photobucket is displaying malvertizements. The problem we face in tracking down the reported malvertizements on photobucket.com is that the advertisements are country specific. This blog has readers all...
Akamai supplies both an ActiveX and a Java based download manager. The ActiveX control remains installed on the users computer until it is manually removed. It is important to note that Akamai has been used by vendors such as Symantec and Microsoft (eg...
I have been reading through the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report covering the period July through to December 2007 over the past few days. Although the bulk of the report focuses on security vulnerabilities, there are statistics specific to "rogue...
Yahoo have removed the malvertizements featured on this blog - I am hopeful that such malvertizements will be removed from circulation much faster in future.
Here it is: The malvertizement, if triggered, redirects victims to the URL windowsxp-privacy.net/?id=987650085. That URL, if a malicious redirect is not triggered, simply dumps the victim at Google. windowsxp-privacy.net is hosted in Russia, with mail...
Kimberley found these ones - full information here: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=ae5aae56f29889c26c465d6f3aa4e9c1&showtopic=18064&st=30&p=87072&#entry87072 atlas-ads.com is registered using the infamous Estdomains, and...
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