Posted on 08/15/2015 8:11:26 AM PDT by snarkpup
Internet lowlives who used Yahoo! ads to infect potentially countless PCs with malware have struck again – using adverts on popular websites to reach millions more people.
Security researchers at MalwareBytes this week discovered the crooks running another massive campaign of ads that use the Angler Exploit Kit to infiltrate Windows PCs via vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and web browsers.
Prominent websites including the Drudge Report and Weather.com – a pair of sites whose total traffic alone amounts to nearly 200 million visits per month – were apparently inadvertently carrying the ads, putting millions of netizens at risk.
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Thumbs up for Adblock Plus. The amazing thing is that some sites are unusable without it - what the heck are the site designers thinking?
how come the companies that use these bozos cant be gone after
When are some of these guys going to be hanged?
NoScript and Adblock Plus are your friends.
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I run both & love them ..... when I saw “ads on Drudge” my first thought was “Ads? What ads?” :-)
thanks for that, just downloaded it
Add in ‘Ghostery’.
Among the guys I would like to see hanged are web programmers of legitimate sites who pointlessly riddle their sites with JavaScript that must be enabled for the sites to work. Running scripts on the client side (i.e., your machine) instead of the server side (their machine) may make interactive sites (e.g., e-commerce) more interactive, but it makes it nearly impossible for people to safely use the internet unless they constantly turn scripting on and off (which is a nuisance) or use some sort of whitelisting like NoScript (which can be difficult for non-programmers to use).
Note that the reason fine-grain whitelisting like NoScript is important is that the aforementioned pointless-but-necessary scripting on an e-commerce site can be enabled while other unnecessary and possibly malicious crap on the same page can be blocked. But this is what makes it complicated for non-programmers.
M4L adblock
“Prominent websites including the Drudge Report and Weather.com”
Misleading headline. How many other sites were affected?
Do NoScript and AdBlock Plus require a lot of configuration or tweaking, or do they run without tinkering?
I’ve had several “block” alerts this morning. And they were blocked. Assclowns. Do something good instead of being little deviants P’sOS.
Why the Drudge headline? Sounds like the problem is Yahoo! ads .
Can you explain how that works for non techies?
Adding insult to injury, Flat Sludge has that automatic refresh feature that delivers a new set of ads every few minutes, so if you luck out and don’t get the spyware on the initial load, you might if you linger a while.
Every refresh makes Sludge a little more money.
I bought a new computer about five weeks ago, and I’ve had to have the Geek Squad clean up my computer three times already, and each time it took them 2-4 hours. And I don’t do a lot of surfing; 90% of my computer usage is to the same 8-10 websites. Some sort of malware was filling up my computer with temp files.
If Republicans make it their issue, that’s a guarantee nothing will ever be done about it.
Ad Block isn’t that bad - you can do some configuring but it pretty much runs on its own and I can’t recall having to mess with it. NoScript is more difficult to use .... it blocks so much that a lot of sites are not usable. I use the “temporarily allow” option .... even using that, it still blocks a lot, but you can click on buttons and have them work.
I lost a laptop last November (it was 5 years old so I needed a new one anyway, but it was still a shock - had backups so it worked out ok) .... the tech isn’t sure what crashed it, but he thinks it was a root kit. I had one a couple of years before and got rid of it, but did not do it by wiping my laptop. When I got rid of that rootkit, it left a hole that was likely exploited by another one. I asked him how to prevent this from happening with my new laptop since I took precautions (anti-virus, malware, did not go to dicey sites, etc.) on my old one. He gave me a list of things to do & one of them was to run Ad Blocker - he said many of the bad things you get are from ads on web pages. He did not initially recommend NoScript - I found it myself, but did ask him about it. He said it was very good, but more difficult to use and if I could deal with it, to go ahead and use it.
For sure, I would use Ad blocker. You can try NoScript & always uninstall if it’s too cumbersome for you.
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