MySpace serving malware?

Further to my surprise at MySpace’s use of interruptive pop-up ads, Sun Microsystems engineer (and all-around clever stick) Alec Muffet contacted me about his experience with ErrorSafe, the interrupting advertiser in question.

Conclusion: Not only is ErrorSafe serving pop-ups, but it is attempting to run executable files on users’ computers. This is about a million and one flavours of not cool and not acceptable. As Alec advises me, the best course of action is to have nothing to do with ErrorSafe, and to complain to those who host their adverts. That, lamentably, includes MySpace.

My problems with errorsafe are beginning to get far past annoying. I only get their popups on myspace pages, regardless of which browser I use. My anti-spyware programs don’t detect anything.

Good thing Red Hat is coming with an open source alternative to social networking :)

I found your blog when googling my errorsafe problem. seems I’m not the only one. also seems this is a fairly new problem.