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GardenTalker · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: I.E. and Photobucket - Warning

I came across this in another forum, so if any of you who use photobucket and Internet Explorer, please make sure that I.E. is fully up to date with security patches etc.

Personally I use Firefox...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/banner_ad_trojan_served_on_mys.html

Banner Ad Trojan Served on MySpace, Photobucket

Several banner ads containing Trojan horse programs that can compromise a user's computer have been running on some high-traffic Web sites for the past several weeks, including MySpace.com and Photobucket.com, Security Fix has learned.

Web security company ScanSafe said it first spotted the tainted banner ads on Aug. 8, and estimates that the hostile ads ran several million times for the next three weeks. Other sites that ran the ads included Bebo.com, TheSun.co.uk, and UltimateGuitar.com, officials at ScanSafe said. All a visitor to one of these sites needed to do to infect their machines was to browse a page that featured the ads with a version of Internet Explorer that was not equipped with the latest security updates from Microsoft. cont...

michael · super moderator Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 981

Thank you GT. I use both of those, IE and PB.

Midlander · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

Ugh there are so many nasties about just now Evil or Very Mad

I picked up a Trojan from the Merriam-Webster dictionary site!! Shocked

And then again from a very obscure village site. We have to have our virus-detecting antennae vibrating to the max these days. teachertalk

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GardenTalker · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject:

I know, I get a little paranoid....and it takes so long to run two or three good scans.
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