NY Times serving up malware today

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090913/home-delivery-the-new-york-times-serves-up-some-malware/

by Tangurena • 17 years ago

25 13 17 years ago

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Tangurena3• 17 years ago

I guess folks who depend on advertising, and ad networks, need to be a bit more careful about who they sell ads to.

seiji• 17 years ago

Crockford sums it up as (paraphrasing): We take time to perform all actions diligently and with the utmost regard towards security and privacy -- unless you pay us.

And, with all good standards, you get multiple choices for a solution. Crockford prefers his adsafe over Google's caja.

http://www.adsafe.org/ http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/

pg• 17 years ago

This happened to me yesterday. When I went to an NYT story, I was redirected to this "virus scan" page.

hrabago• 17 years ago

Happened to me yesterday, too, from an HN link - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819367

kajecounterhack• 17 years ago

Same. I eventually refreshing a bunch of times recycled the ads and I was able to view the article without an annoying redirect.

Locke16892• 17 years ago

Same, but it happened on my iphone. I won't tell you how strange it was to see a "virus scan" in a Windows XP window on my iphone.

Tangurena3• 17 years ago

Did it look something like this?

http://imgur.com/1Lycn.png

earl• 17 years ago

Yeah, I noticed. I thought my gf had been on my computer again, so I checked with my work laptop. Nope, it was the NYT.

windsurfer• 17 years ago

Good thing they put up everything behind a registration wall.

GiraffeNecktie• 17 years ago

Is this another sign that newspapers are getting even more desperate for advertising revenue?

brown9-2• 17 years ago

At least it was accidental, and not intentional... If that counts.

NY Times serving up malware today

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