AOL and Winfixer. Malware advertisements gone for the moment

by certifiedbug on March 27, 2007

in Security

Update from Spyware Sucks.

A contact at Microsoft put me in touch with the appropriate people at AOL this morning - an advertising tech lead and a gentleman involved in policy and compliance. Thanks to a network capture that I gave to AOL they were finally able to shut down the track down the rogue advertiser who had infiltrated the AOL ad network to serve up winfixer malware advertisements.

I am not confident that MS and AOL and the advertising networks they use are going to be able to block the bad guys going forward, not unless…….

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