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Originally Posted by ismokeblunts
Care to expand on what risk running avnads has to my surfers? i'm not making that much from the adzones i run, and might just considering axing them...
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Sure thing, here is a quote from another board this morning--
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I added AvnAds to abbeysporn today to try them out... later on in the day I went back to check them out and clicked a few of the ads... BAM I got a video codec trojan page... see proof...
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Here is the
screen grab of the link and subsequent clicks.
I
posted a thread here a bit ago about this, and with the information from that the trojan folks were actually adding the virus to the sites themselves with flash or whatever. Adbrite/avnads said they fixed that, but obviously they don't really have a grasp on what they are dealing with(or maybe they know exactly what they are doing)
For the record, Trendmicro still flags sites that use adbrite/avnads as having spyware and recommends closing them and never returning to the site again.(See the screenshot in the last link posted to see what it actually says)
As the links they are adding to their network are direct to trojans, it doesn't appear that they give a shit who gets infected.