Tuesday, May 30, 2006

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.