Banners Made to Hijack Your PC
 

I can't believe this story my tech guy just forwarded to me. Bad enough I have to worry about clicking on banners, now there are banners that deliver Malware if I just visit the wrong site!

Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

The worst-case scenario used to be that online ads are pesky, memory-draining distractions. But a new batch of banner ads is much more sinister: They hijack personal computers and bully users until they agree to buy antivirus software.

And the ads do their dirty work even if you don't click on them.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/n...11/doubleclick

I've seen this kind of thing on myspace before, thankfully Norton caught most of it. Although back then they allowed iframing of ads which of course led to tons of exploits when unattended...
WG