that's why I now use AD Block Plus on firefox! On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:18 AM, skipp025 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Re: Trojan Horse - Banner Ads > > One of the more creative invasions I've seen (and unfortunately) > experienced as of late are related to banner ads on web sites. > > Site operators are sometimes compensated (paid) to place > advertisement and information tracking script/code into web > pages. The Ads are sourced from another web site/source and > the ad web server is actually the hijacked site. Might not > be in this specific case but I've seen a lot more recent > remote web site compromises. > > Bad people embed code into the hijacked Ad web server and > your computer (thinking it sees only an image) saves the entire > code/script into your browsers cache, which can and often does > get executed during a file cache recall. > > One of the most interesting sidebars to this latest round of > trouble is the advertisements where I received the last two > banner ad alert warnings... the displayed advertisement was > for Kaspersky Anti Virus. > > So the bad people not only have malicious intent, they might > have a sense of humor unless you speculate an Anti-virus > company might be trying to self generate a little business? > > Nahhh.... > > cheers, > s. > > > "Doug Bade" <k...@...> wrote: > > > > Avast went RED here too.. I have never seen it do that. Blocked a Trojan > on > > connect.. dropped the site. not from google search.. direct from the > > hyperlink Jim posted.I would say it is real.. > > > > > > > > Doug > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: [email protected]<Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> > > [mailto:[email protected]<Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com>] > On Behalf Of James Cicirello > > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 11:52 AM > > To: [email protected]<Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Trojan Horse > > > > > > > > > > > > Kevin and moderators. > > I have been reading about problems getting onto repeater-builder.com. > This > > morning my Avast flagged the site with the following. > > Malware, JS:llredir.AO tr TROGAN HORSE VPS Verision 100412-0, 4/12/2010. > > You probably already have the info. but wanted to make sure. > > KA2AJH > > > > -- > > Jim Cicirello > > 181 Stevens Street > > Wellsville, N.Y. 14895 > > (585)593-4655 > > > > > -- John Gleaton Brewton Alabama [email protected] [email protected] 251-241-9203
