Ad on MySpace Serves Up Adware to 1M PCs - CIO Tech Informer - Blog - CIO:
"Ad on MySpace Serves Up Adware to 1M PCs
More than 1 million users of MySpace.com and other websites may have been infected with adware spread by a banner advertisement, according to iDefense, a computer security group.
The advertisement, for a site called deckoutyourdeck.com, appeared in user profiles on MySpace, an online community with at least 70 million users, said Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at iDefense, which is owned by VeriSign.
The ad exploits a problem in the way Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser handles Windows Metafile (WMF) image files."
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Just another reason to use Firefox or Opera for your web browser :)
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