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Strange behavior only with Cnet tonight

Jul 11, 2008 11:56AM PDT

I'm getting a popup about my PC not having internet protection software and the site it directs to is something like internetscannerlive_com (http). I'm deliberately changing the url here. This is happening with both IE and FF and only when entering the Cnet forums site. I've tried browsing all over the web and don't see it. Once I hit Cnet, within a couple of clicks I'm getting the popup. I cannot exit this. Anything I click brings up something about WinDefender and performs a bogus scan of my system finding dozens of threats that Norton, Spybot and Hijackthis don't see...nor does the real Windows defender. I'm hoping this is a problem with Cnet and not my PC. Gonna shut down the rig and try again tomorrow.

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Lee
Jul 17, 2008 3:26AM PDT

My problem happened yesterday morning.This is my post from yesterday.


I went to XP forum here at cnet this morning and as soon as I clicked on the latest post for SPS problems I got a popup for "Internet Security Deluxe.How do I get rid of this? I read that it has to do with zlob. Fish

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Ok good... the bad ad was removed around 11am Pacific Time
Jul 17, 2008 3:58AM PDT

But let me know if you encourter this any longer.

Thanks!

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(NT) Clarification removed yesterday 7/16/08 11am Pacific.
Jul 17, 2008 4:08AM PDT
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UPDATE on this redirect issue
Jul 17, 2008 6:54AM PDT

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you everyone here who provided all the necessary information to track down this random redirecting issue of CNET forum pages to rogue sites/scanners. Your contribution is truly appreciated and it has paid off!

The good news is that this issue has now been resolved with your help. After some deep digging and investigating by our ad and security team yesterday morning, they tracked down the culprit to be a 3rd party ad being served on our site that had been compromised--in which it was randomly causing CNET users to be redirect to rogue sites/scanner. We have since removed the hijacked ads off of our sites (which BTW was not only exclusive to the forums) and hopefully you should not be experiencing those redirects anymore. I have my fingers crossed!

While it is always possible that other ads can be compromised in some way or another, your security and trust in our Website is very important to us at CNET. So our next steps by our ad and security teams will be making this a top priority issue and is currently taking the necessary steps to ensure that this occurrence will not happen again.

Thank you all again for your help and support. If you do see anything of this nature again, please report it in the forum here. Thanks again!

Cheers!
-Lee Koo
CNET Community

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Great news....now can we
Jul 17, 2008 11:06PM PDT

get rid of the flying golf ball in the Lexus ad? I'm going to need a neck brace from trying to duck. Happy