This morning I started getting emails from myself for Viagra, from
several of my different Mac dot Com addresses, all addressed to the
account that sent them. Even I can't do that! All providers I've
complained to in the past have nothing to say, other than to ride it
out, it will stop.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
On Dec 14, 2008, at 02:55 , Anthony Farr wrote:
There's a brief but good explanation of a drive-by download here:
http://glossary.spamlaws.com/definition/d/driveby-download.html
The bit that relates to our situation is this,
"...a computer can be easily exploited unknowingly through legitimate,
mainstream services due to third-party advertising on the site. If the
advertising group consists of or has been infiltrated by malicious
code
writers, this content can be slithered into an official ad rotation
and
becomes injected into what is believed to be a reputable site."
So, we can see the same page at different times and from different
locations
and get entirely different advertisements injected into the page.
Some
advertisers may have been unknowingly hijacked by spammers who seek to
recruit home computers as spambots. At other times the ads are as
clean as
the driven snow. It's a lottery.
Regards, Anthony
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