Monthly Archives: February 2008

Malicious banner ads appear on Expedia, Rhapsody sites

Posted on February 2, 2008 by duschang

http://www.scmagazineus.com/Malicious-banner-ads-appear-on-Expedia-Rhapsody-sites/article/104827/ Recently, malicious ad banners that deliver malware had appear on both Expedia and Rhapsody.  Clicking on the malicious flash ad banner, SWF_ADHIJACK.A, leads to several re-directions, which eventually result to the installation of a rogue antispyware detected as TROJ_GIDA.A. … Continue reading →

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Security software or adware?

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Brian

It recently came to my attention that Adobe is now including an option (which is checked by default) in their installers for Adobe Reader and the Shockwave player to install a Norton Security Scan program. I think this raises some … Continue reading →

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