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Monday, March 26, 2007 12:00 AM

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...
Posted: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:00 AM

WARNING: Winfixer and Errorsafe being distributed via MSN Messenger banner advertisements

Part of this article may fall to the bottom of screen on smaller displays - scroll down if this happens to you. Edit: I should point out that MSN Messenger's proper name is now Windows Live Messenger. Pushers of the malware known as winfixer managed to infiltrated a provider of advertising content for...
Posted: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:00 AM

The ongoing winfixer saga

So, what do we do about an advertising network like ValueClick that will not clean up its act? A network that has been implicated, over and over, in the spread of malware? An advertising network that was involved in the infiltration of the Windows Live Messenger banner advertisement by winfixer malware...
Posted: Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:00 AM

Winfixer ad network infiltrations - ponderings

My articles about Winfixer infiltrating the MSN and AOL advertising networks have garnered a lot of interest over the past few weeks. Trawling through the referrers and trackbacks for my various articles shows just how topical and pervasive the malware advertisement infilitrations are becoming. AOL and...
Posted: Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:00 AM

GOTCHA! Winfixer and AOL

I've posted a couple of times on this blog about how visits to AOL pages were redirecting at random to the scareware/malware commonly known as Winfixer (aka SystemDoctor and ErrorSafe aka several other names). On previous occasions I did not have network monitors running, and therefore could only offer...
Posted: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:00 AM

Winfixer and ValueClick – an oft appearing association

My regular readers will remember my various articles about the Winfixer infiltration of the AOL and MSN advertising networks that happened not long ago. Winfixer infiltration of Web site advertising (as well as forum and comment spam) continues to be problematic, and one name that keeps on popping up...
Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:00 AM

AOL and Winfixer.. the malware advertisements should be gone.. for now.

A contact at Microsoft put me in touch with the appropriate people at AOL this morning - an advertising tech lead and a gentleman involved in policy and compliance. Thanks to a network capture that I gave to AOL they were finally able to track down the rogue advertiser who had infiltrated the AOL ad...
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:00 AM

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...
Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Winfixer at seo.mhvt.net

All URLS broken for safety reasons: The bad advertisement is hxxp://b1.adbrite.com/iads/35249.swf (an advertisement for monstermarketplace.com ). Please read this article if you cannot reproduce the hijack. Note: there may be more hijacking adverts - this is just the one I found today. The owner of the...
Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Another Winfixer outbreak

It has been reported on a spyware mailing list that I subsdribe to that a winfixer outbreak has been detected at the following URL: hxxp://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/technical-goof-wipes-out-38-billion/20070320140609990001 I visited the above URL and was immediately redirected to www.systemdoctor...
Posted: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:00 AM by sandi
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