Edit: the malvertizements have been removed from circulation .
And still the problems continue….
I wonder how many hits Yahoo gets per day, and how many people are being exposed to fraudware, while these advertisements are allowed to remain online…
Did i miss something? What’s wrong with these ads?
Got some contacts at Yahoo UK, So I can let them know. Beside this I saw those ads creatives scanned recently with the tool and they were clean
@menthix,
Uh, yeah, you are missing something – a lot actually.
I’m not going to reiterate what is already on this blog – sufficient to send you to look at this:
Yahoo advertisement check (the square dare to wear black):
http://www.adopstools.com/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=xfbsL47jSNSzOu3b
Yahoo advertisement check – the rectangular one:
http://www.adopstools.com/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=399pDDUCZHc5246x
Just copy the link and open it with a network aware text editor such as TextPad and you’ll see for yourself just by looking at the source code.
Just make sure you have a clean pair of shorts handy.
Cite this discussion:http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?p=178973
There are three complaints about malicious advertisements being supplied by ReachWe in that discussion.
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