Friday - September 07, 2012

malware and the daily mail who apparently do not care

FIRST !!

A WARNING to any of our readers going to the Daily Mail (UK) for stories.

Be very careful.

Last night I hit upon a couple of very interesting and bizarre articles at the Daily Mail. Nothing new really except the extent of the insanity, which had been carried to new heights.  For example, how’s this for really bizarre writ bold in huge letters.

A judge told a burglar that he thought it took great courage to burgle someone’s home, and gave him another chance to go straight.  Judge told said burglar that he wouldn’t have the nerve the burglar did.  The defendant btw, started his career at the age of 10.
Is that bizarre enough?
Well naturally I want to share that kind of story in all its insanity.
BUT ….

One or two strange things started happening when I started doing a copy/paste thing.
I was reminded of an old Red Buttons song of the late 50’s.  I think it was the 50s.
“Strange Things Are Happening.” But ole Red was a comic and the strange things I was seeing weren’t funny.

False links to nonexistent articles, ads that were not originated by the DM.
And so I deleted everything I had copied and ran some anti malware and AV and the usual stuff you do when you find creepy things on your pc.

So I wrote to the tech dept. at the Daily Mail, sent them a screen shot earlier today and never heard a word back.

Here’s just a portion of the screen shot. I especially was nervous about those registry entries.

So being the nervous type when it comes to this stuff, I contacted my AV people at ESET UK.
And got this reply.
Interesting. Don’t ya think?

Good Morning,

Yes we noticed a few weeks ago that the Daily Mail and Guardian websites (we did notify them but they seem to not have done much about it) had been hit with Malware within their Advertising Networks. Having looked at the MalwareBytes screenshot you have attached most of the entries are to do with Tool Bars that you have inadvertently installed (either by yourself or someone else) and they have written references into your registry. I assume you got Malwarebytes to remove those entries so you should be ok. If you would like I am happy to check your machine over for you if necessary (to give you peace of mind) so if you would like to take me up on that offer then please supply me with a telephone contact number for yourself. I will then attempt to contact you and will arrange to remotely connect to your machine where I will be happy to check things over for you. I will await your response. 

http://www.eset.co.uk

Posted by peiper     on 09/07/2012 at 11:20 AM   
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