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Information Technology News MySpace banner causes spyware headache for million users
Information Technology News MySpace banner causes spyware headache for million users | MySpace banner causes spyware headache for million users |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 25 July 2006 | |
  
The banner ad, discovered by an analyst at security firm iDefense, was posted by a site called deckoutyourdeck.com and exploited a flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser which caused users to visit a number of web sites and download adware and spyware. The flaw exploited a hole in Internet Explorer, which has been patched since January, which allowed a Trojan horse program to be downloaded through a WMF image. Once infected, users' machines receive unwanted pop-up ads and constant monitoring of their activity while online. It is not entirely clear how a high profile web site such as MySpace could enable an illegal advertisement containing malware to be served to its pages from its network of ad servers. {moscomment} |
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