Jul 19 2006
MySpace Ad Causing Problems
Apparently, a banner add has been causing grief on mySpace. Check out the story from Brian Krebs from the Washington Post:
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.
Be sure to read the rest of the article for help removing the spyware.
7/20 Update:
The Houston Chronicle’s TechBlog has more on the problems with MySpace and advocates turning on those automatic Microsoft updates to fight these issues:
Nothing Microsoft’s buggy code is going to do to your machine would be worse than having your passwords or your identity stolen.
It’s not surprising that MySpace would be a target for malware; considering the size and nature of the audience, more is on the way.
