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Old 09-30-2013, 02:12 AM  
mikeworks
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Originally Posted by nextri View Post
As for the campaign in question with antivirus.com-alerts.org. We have disabled the campaign although it did not spread malware. I agree it's incredibly annoying and missleading to the surfers. But the reality of it was that the campaign was promoting and trying to get people to install AVG antivirus via their affiliate program, and AVG is not malware. So although very sneaky and missleading, it was not actually malware. We have disabled the campaign regardless though.
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