20 July 2006
Dangers of Adware
It seems that a banner ad for a site deckoutyourdeck.com contains adware that exploits a weakness in MS IE. The bad news is that there are about 600 sites that use this weakness. The good news is that since January 06 there has been a patch for it.
This banner ad installs a trojan that begins downloading other software some of which causes pop-up ads to be displayed and track online activity.
Patched computers will ask the user if they want to download the program rather than just doing it, so make sure you have the latest security patches if your running IE and make sure you're doing regular adware scans to keep yourself safe from such attacks.
This banner ad installs a trojan that begins downloading other software some of which causes pop-up ads to be displayed and track online activity.
Patched computers will ask the user if they want to download the program rather than just doing it, so make sure you have the latest security patches if your running IE and make sure you're doing regular adware scans to keep yourself safe from such attacks.
Labels: adware, IE, microsoft, vulnerability
