IAC\ASK Unwanted ineffective(except to make them $$$)Toolbar Installation Practices

From Ben Edleman, a full accounting of what IAC\ASK does to get a toolbar installed. Any toolbar they can make up. Some are a real stretch and plenty of them target kids

And goodness knows the results of having any of these is actually a lesser quality of search results, not to mention all kinds of intrusive system changes, all designed to make IAC\ASK a ton of money

IAC Toolbars and Traffic Arbitrage in 2013

Malware @ Blogspot Blogs......Again

After a short while of inactivity, it appears the BMG(Blogger Malware Group) are at it again. After reading another security blog, I wandered on over and was not disappointed. Every blog I hit once I saw a pattern delivered a good payload of malware, calling out to the same sites. Read about the details here...

McAfee: Doom & Gloom, or FUD?

The researchers at McAfee are predicting more complex and intelligent bots, as well as attacks of gaming sites and more concentrated effort to breaking Vista in 2008. More here....

'Next Blog' Button Infects Users

Just the other week, I posted about WinAntiVirus links which were found to be on some blogs. All of which were taken down by Google. Now these were specific blogs created to drive traffic to either infect or dupe users.

Then Sunbelt Blog posted about Storm worm links embedded into Blogger\Blogspot blogs. Again, specifically created to infect.

This weekend I decided to go looking for malware and boy did I find it! First link I hit, POW!! Malware got installed immediately. And some not very well detected malware either. I went out twice and got infected within 1 minute the first time and within 3 minutes the second time and I found a bunch of blogs all pushing the same malware. Read more about it, see the scan results right here