Are fake malware alerts becoming more common. You know the sort, they pop up looking like a common dialog, such as Windows alert, indicating malware or trojan detected. If you're not careful, i'm sure there's a payload by clicking the wrong button.
I've seen this happen on a number of well known sites, including a site in a SERPs record on google (that site is now gone from the index).
Now, it seems that the Drudge Report is included in this.
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news.cnet.com...] Drudge denied that his site was infecting visitors, however it's likely that the malware is coming from ads delivered by a third-party ad network and not the site itself.
The two most high profile sites I can think of serve ads. Is this the new way to deliver payloads? If it is, it must be costing money, unless the scammers have compromised the ad network.
What's your view? Are we now set to have to battle malware ad phishing? This is all becoming too tedious for words.
