Warning: GoComics is vectoring malware

[cryptoguy]

All the go-comics pages I tried to load this morning were blocked by
Avast antivirus, saying they were trying to load a trojan of some
kind.

pt

[aemeijers]

The page itself, or the ads? I've complained to them about the ads doing
that before, and they said they would speak to the company that rents
out their ad blocks for them. I run the extra-strength Firefox ad
blocker now, and haven't noted any problems. I was on there today
reading my normal list.

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aem sends...

[Jim O'Malley]

"aemeijers" <aeme...@att.net> wrote in message
news:g_KdnbIb9fcrxJXW...@giganews.com...

AEM, it looks like ad copy is the trigger. I've been trying to isolate which
ad, but have not been able to do so. The pages redirect to scareware notices
from mctraf.info and secoscan.info that attempt to load an executable from
trustofiles.info. I first encountered the redirect at 12:12am.

Jim in Amarillo

[Carl Fink]

Yeah, Adblock Plus eliminates the whole issue.
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[Jym Dyer]

=v= The "goComics minus goComics" site is unaffected:

http://john.seikdel.net/gocomics.php

Often a URI of the format uclick.com/client/xxx/yyy/ will get
you a page (for comic yyy in newspaper xxx) that doesn't serve
up so much multimedia adspew.
<_Jym_>