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Banner Ad on Myspace Serves Adware to 1 Million
An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog reports that a banner ad running on MySpace.com and other Web sites used a Windows security flaw to push adware and spyware out to more than one million computer users this week. The attack leveraged the Windows Metafile (WMF) exploit to install programs in the PurityScan/ClickSpring family of adware, which bombards the user with pop-up ads and tracks their Web usage."
When is President GW Bush going to realise that America is part of the Axis of Evil, and carpet bomb these Adware people back to the stone age?
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MySpace was a pretty sleazy company before Murdoch bought it. Tom is the public face, but the original investors are a mysterious and well hidden group that has links to spyware and adware.
Can I substantiate this? Yes. Will I substantiate it? No.
I don't care if anyone believes me. Just remember, you heard it here first.
But to address your assertion: A website might want to pass the buck to whoever was doing the ad-serving, but it was their site that was spreading the disease. They have ultimate responsibility.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Get over yourself, for goodness sake. It's fools like you who make all Linux users look like haughty Windows-hating snobs.
When did I realise I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realised I was talking to myself.
You can't convince these wannabe-libertarian assholes of anything rational, dude. They believe that every man is an island, but they wouldn't want to live on one. They want to be able to go to wal-mart to buy ammunition but they don't want to help provide for the health of the system that provides the opportunity.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"