[ga] Online Ad Networks Serving Up Malware

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  As if some of us didn't already know.  But a few, those that believe
that 'marketing is education and education is marketing' seem to have
or didn't take online banner ad's into account.  Eric, wasn't this
your tag line?
See:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/13/doubleclick_msn_malware_attacks/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/doubleclick/
Two major Internet advertisement service networks - DoubleClick and
rad.msn.com - have been found to be serving malware from banner ads on
some websites.  Users who visit the sites with the malware-laced ads
become infected simply by visiting the sites; no action is required.
The infected ads exploit at least seven known vulnerabilities in Adobe
Reader, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Oracle Java.

To get these removed try:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-hdd-plus

Regards,
Jeffrey A. Williams
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very
often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability
depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: 214-244-4827