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Winfixer more aggressive?

I went by a website today that had a rather nasty payload. After a search on the site that delivered a search result, the page disappeared and a page from amaena.com loaded instead. I’m always very careful when those appear. I close the windows that pop up (I use Firefox with pop up protection) with Alt-F4. Even so, the Winfixer exe file started downloading and was caught by my anti-virus.

The ad was delivered by ad2profit.com

I’ve never in the past experienced a forced download of Winfixer, so I’m wondering what’s up?

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3 Responses to “Winfixer more aggressive?”

  1. TeMerc Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 11:21 am

    RE: WinFixer ads, a good starting point would be here:
    http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2007/05/31/935905.aspx

    From there you can jump over to the Hosts News blog for more details

    HTH

    TeMerc

  2. Mads Dam Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    I use Firefox too, but I have added NoScript for further security. I wonder if javascript etc was turned off when you experienced this unexpected download..?

  3. admin Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 7:24 am

    I had forgotten to turn off java after I’d needed it just before :-(

    I normally surf with java turned off. I suspect that’s the difference.

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