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July 24, 2006
MySpace Adware Strikes Over 1 Million Users
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Over one million users of MySpace were infected with adware via a banner ad for 'deckoutyourdeck.com' in the past few weeks according to iDefense, a computer security group. The ad exploited a well-known flaw in the way that Intenet Explorer handles WMF images. Unpatched machines are particularly vulnerable. Merely visiting a page with the deckoutyourdeck.com banner ad causes a download of a Trojan horse program. Those who have installed the patch see a prompt asking to download a file called "exp.wmf" when visiting a page with the advertisement. MORE |
Posted by geekblue at July 24, 2006 9:19 AM