Banner Ad on MySpace delivers spyware to over a million viewers

**Apophis** · 07-20-2006, 09:18 AM

An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company.

Full Story: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/secur...are_to_mo.html

**UnDeaD77** · 07-20-2006, 09:35 AM

gg MySpace, my gf visits the page daily, and I hate seeing it on my screen. Better go check to see if I've got that crap on my computer, thanks for posting would not of known otherwise.

Well, I noticed it affects IE users without the fix, my gf for some reason uses IE to open myspace site, I use firefox.

**Wyzcrak** · 07-20-2006, 09:48 AM

Here's to the day when Fx's popularity renders it no less victim to this sort of attack than is IE today.

**TheFeniX** · 07-20-2006, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by undead77

gg MySpace,

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An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites

Seriously now: let's save the "gg MySpace" when they start intentionally loading spyware and other crap on your PC a la our "good friends" at Sony.

07-20-2006, 09:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
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07-20-2006, 09:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
UnDeaD77 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Fort Worth,Texas Age: 22 Posts: 5,839	Re: Banner Ad on MySpace delivers spyware to over a million viewers gg MySpace, my gf visits the page daily, and I hate seeing it on my screen. Better go check to see if I've got that crap on my computer, thanks for posting would not of known otherwise. Well, I noticed it affects IE users without the fix, my gf for some reason uses IE to open myspace site, I use firefox. __________________

07-20-2006, 09:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
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