There appears to be malware hidden somewhere in one of the ads

Posted by Amandarama, November 12, 2009 at 5:08 PM

Hi, just a heads up that I picked up some sort of malware called "Antivirus System Pro" while checking out the Thanksgiving Turkey Give Away page from my work computer that runs Internet Explorer 7. It's some kind of Trojan horse that affects people using IE; Firefox users should be fine - but people may want to scan their computers with anti-malware programs to be on the safe side. If you have been infected with the malware, download Firefox and go to bleepingcomputer.com. It will give you good resources for getting rid of "Antivirus System Pro".

The Trojan horse will hijack your antivirus software and give you annoying pop ups that try to direct you to their site to buy their software. My browser also got hijacked to a site that was trying to sell me Viagra. Not very good eats, I'm afraid!

I just wanted to let folks know. Hopefully someone can look into this. I'm now back to safely surfing with Firefox and NoScript and things seem fine again.

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