Major League Baseball Strikes out

Infective banner ads are not new, but it's not so common for them to come with major websites like mlb.com and nhl.com. This video shows how easily even major websites can become victims too, and how difficult it is for them to prevent it.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• roger
• thompson
• explabs
• linkscanner
• exploit
• major
• league
• baseball
• national
• hockey
• crimeware
• cybercrime

[gandhitaymour]

instead of clicking "cancel" or "ok" just click the "X" in the top right. "ok" isn't the only button you have to click.

[rogertatmindspring]

Nope. Clicking X won't do it. That behaves the same way as Cancel. What you have to do is kill the browser, or let it start to install and then kill the download.

[kc2keo]

I don't have time to read your text comments but I'll make my own comment thats probably been mentioned already...

Normally if I ever get one of those annoying ads that tells me i'm infected I always click the "X" on the window to close it or use the keystroke "alt+f4" which closes it successfully most of the time. Those bad ads usually have bogus buttons!

[rogertatmindspring]

Hi,

The "X" doesn't generally work, but alt+F4 might.

Cheers

Roger

[ReedJaguar]

Switch to Mozilla Firefox Browser

Intall the following add-ons, then you'll be ok

Adblock Plus

NoScript

SiteAvisor

and LinkScanner

thats why our friend is "rogertatmindspring" used Internet Explorer on all videos, because Microsofts browser is the one of the problems

Merry Christmas

Great videos by the way and very useful

[compulsoryregisbad]

I'm no Mac fan, but you're lucky if games work right out of the box on a fresh windows install. You almost always have to update things - display drivers, DirectX, etc. If you're lucky, that's /all/ you have to do, but quite a few games need some extra tweaking to really work well.

If you want something purely for games, by a game console.

Also, the whole Mac vs PC vs consoles argument really has nothing to do with this example of malware.

[blahtoausername]

Google own DoubleClick! Install NoScript, forbid DoubleClick - problem solved :)

[spongelic]

A long time ago (when I still used IE) the same thing happened to me on DeviantART but on GC it's fine.....

[LovefromUSSR]

it would

[Pyrobox32]

Good point there, sites could run out of profit i suppose if everyone used adblock :D thanks for spreading this.

[kotatsuken]

yeah, it will. but you dont have to worry about activex if you use firefox. also the adblock plus extension will block ads from sites like doubleclick, but most website owners rely on ad revenue to pay for their site, so adblock plus could hurt website owners.

[Ikilledyou123]

Windows based computers are based for cheapness, rather than a mac uses less resources which means hardware and software can perform faster

[will122391]

For $2000 you can get a PC with incredible specs.

Macs are for looks, family. and a nice OS

Windows is for business, price, and compatibility.

[Ikilledyou123]

MACs are often mis-used, they are designed for more horse power than a standard pc. like graphic editing, adobe tools ect. pretty much why they cost like $2000

[thellama88]

I have one word: paranoia

[archerj13]

I don't know but would firefox noscript help stop this by stopping java,activex .etc scripts from running? If someone knows please reply because im curious to know.