Corrine Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say Two Internet security firms have reported that Yahoo's advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the last few days. The attack appears to be the work of malicious parties who have hijacked Yahoo's advertising network for their own ends. According to Yahoo, they identified an ad designed to spread malwareand "immediately" removed it. I'm not so sure how "immediately" it was since the report indicates it started December 30. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Wow! I wish someone else would buy Flickr from Yahoo! Get tired of having to deal w/security issues at Yahoo when I love Flickr! I rarely ever use My Yahoo account except for Flickr. Thanks for the heads up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Thanks Corrine! Did a deep scan with MSE and MalwareBytes with nothing found. I don't go to Yahoo.com directly, but sometimes read news articles on Yahoo News from links on other sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I rarely go to Yahoo and since I have ads blocked, I doubt I'd see infected ones to click on. I also have Java disabled on the only computer it is installed on. If you can't remove java at the very least, disable it in all the browsers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Same here, Liz. Sometimes blocking ads is just plain necessary. And other than having to login to use Flickr, I rarely go to yahoo. Edited January 5, 2014 by LilBambi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Malware? Ads? What are these things you speak of here? I haven't seen an ad on a website in nearly a decade. Malware? There's nothing mal about the wares on my Slackware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siljaline Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 A Hosts file would probably have blocked some of the Yahoo ads. Such is web based email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I read on a HitmanPro blog, courtesy of a link in Graham Cluley's article http://hitmanpro.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/malware-served-via-yahoo-affected-millions/ that it is a driveby infection and could happen if you accessed Ymail. I scanned the one computer that has Java (up to date AND disabled) with MSSE, MBAM and ESET's online scanner. Since none of the three found anything, I pretty sure that computer is clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siljaline Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 But who runs Sun Java these days ? Those that suspect an infection should post the usual at a Forum that supports infection help I've not read of a user getting infected as a result of this as of yet. But I may have missed some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siljaline Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Questions left unanswered about Yahoo malware attack. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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