malwarealarm.jpgI've bored you with this before: Worst banner ad ever, System doctor takes over your browser and Hacking web banner networks sends banner ads from hated to feared. Well, that redirect trick is still appearing in flash banners on ad networks everywhere it seems - just a few days ago fellow adblogger Adrants.com had the misfortune of carrying one of those buggers. Steve's in good company, according to Wired's Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC article on December 17th, "The malware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball's MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal." Here's what one of these banner-hijacks looked like in action.
