My apologies to The Righteous Brothers.
\nLately I’m being\u00a0tasked on\u00a0a frequent basis to get rid of someone’s new infection of rouge “anti-virus” malware.\u00a0 To say the least, these are pesky pains in the posterior to get rid of.\u00a0 Each time I diligently tried to track down where the infection originated, I\u00a0was given the same type of answer, “I only surf legitimate sites and didn’t click on anything I shouldn’t have”.\u00a0 At first I thought this was people’s natural reaction to cover-up their own mischief,\u00a0but since everyone said the same thing it\u00a0led me to believe that there must be something happening on these ‘legitimate’ sites that actually causes the infection.<\/p>\n
But what could it be?\u00a0 It\u00a0wasn’t very likely that a variety of\u00a0top flight\u00a0sites would suddenly implant something so insidious, but there had to be something.\u00a0 What was common among these sites?<\/p>\n
Then the light bulb went on.\u00a0 I bet it’s the ads on the sites!\u00a0 But no, what ad network would allow such a thing?<\/p>\n
Well it turns out, that some of the biggest, most well-known ad serving networks are; according to recent information from Avast.\u00a0 CNet has published an article with some of the findings.<\/p>\n
So what’s being done about it?\u00a0 Apparently not much, except a lot of finger pointing.\u00a0 The ad serving networks seem to think it’s the publisher’s responsibility and vice versa.\u00a0 Please for the sake of all of us, somebody take ownership and get this resolved!<\/p>\n
In the meantime, stop the malware in its tracks by keeping high quality anti-virus\/anti-malware running and up-to-date.\u00a0\u00a0Most importantly, always install security updates for all of your applications as this is typically how malware creeps in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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