Myspace ads for "scareware"

[Humpty]

MySpace has engaged in its fair share of fights over the past few months, battling alleged spammers and fending off lawsuits. Now we're hearing an allegation that the social networking site has been serving ads that hock pesky programs known as "scareware." And rather than call out the big guns, the social networking site is rolling over and playing dead.

 

James Kingsley, a PhD student in the UK city of Sheffield, said his wife encountered ads on Monday while tending to her MySpace account. The insult, he said, extended to repeated attempts by one of the advertised parasites to install the program using ActiveX.

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Interesting but users who have FireFox can easily Ignore these Ad's by installing Adblock Plus. People who use Avant or Maxthon are well protected by their Implanted Adblockers. Sadly though Microsoft with it's hardly amazing IE7 doesn't support such a feature.

 

Actually through all this it's mainly common sense to just Ignore the Ad's cause people these days should know by now those Ad's contain Spyware.