MowGreen

From : Spyware Sucks
Owned by Sandi Hardmeier - a Microsoft MVP since 1999 specialising in Internet Explorer

A contact at Microsoft put me in touch with the appropriate people at AOL this morning - an advertising tech lead and a gentleman involved in policy and compliance. Thanks to a network capture that I gave to AOL they were finally able to shut down the track down the rogue advertiser who had infiltrated the AOL ad network to serve up winfixer malware advertisements.

Once the guys at AOL and I actually hooked up, it only took a few hours to get the account shut down. Damned if I know why it took for us to connect, but it did.

AOL's official statement on the incident is:

"We use a wide range of technical and policy measures to prevent malware distributors from placing advertisements on our networks, but apparently one was able to circumvent those measures. We have blocked this ad campaign and [are] working with our technical and legal teams to take additional steps to block similar issues in future."

Score another one for the good guys. Too bad Winfixer maggots.
Crawl back into the hole from whence you emerged ....

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From : Spyware Sucks
Owned by Sandi Hardmeier - a Microsoft MVP since 1999 specialising in Internet Explorer

This is simply not good enough.

MSN / Microsoft acted fast when *their* advertising network was infiltrated. AOL, it seems, are either incapable or unwilling to do anything to protect their readers.

The following was captured only minutes ago. This has been going on for days now, yet AOL remains unresponsive, leaving how many millions of users at direct risk of winfixer infection. I am going to use every means at my disposal, pull every string, take advantage of every relationship, to try and convince AOL to act.

If AOL will only act under a barrage of negative press, then so be it. Reality is that MS/MSN reacted, and reacted fast, when their network was infiltrated. I won't share exactly what MSN/MS did, but I will say that they took extremely strong steps to neutralise the risk to their users - steps that proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that MS and MSN were putting the safety of their users before everything else - steps that AOL seem to be unwilling or unable to take.

YO, AOL What's your problem ? Why is your User Base being exposed to this malware ? This is an ongoing issue !
The AOL advertisement network has DEFINITELY been infiltrated by winfixer That article was published last week. Get off your butts and DO SOMETHING ALREADY
Fix it or get fried, baby

Posted by MowGreen at 10:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Global Summit 2007
The Microsoft MVP Program is proud to announce plans for the 2007 MVP Global Summit. The Global Summit will occur March 12–15, 2007 in Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, and also at the Microsoft Corporation main campus in Redmond, Washington.

The 2007 MVP Global Summit will provide MVPs, regional directors (RDs), and special community influencers four days of activities and technical sessions. At the summit, guests can exchange information with Microsoft executives and product managers, share best practices, network, and have fun. We are especially excited to have Microsoft Chairman and Chief Architect Bill Gates kick off the event with a keynote address.

With the the MVP Global Summit starting on March 12th AND the change in Daylight Savings Time occurring on March 11th, this means that there will be quite a few System Administrators who will not be around on Monday the 12th to smooth over 'bugs'. They'll probably be hungover in Seattle.
This being the Connected Era, they will be available by various means.
Please be nice to SysAdmins who are hungover or you may experience CD ( Connectile Dysfunction )

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