There's a brief but good explanation of a drive-by download here: http://glossary.spamlaws.com/definition/d/driveby-download.html
The bit that relates to our situation is this, "...a computer can be easily exploited unknowingly through legitimate, mainstream services due to third-party advertising on the site. If the advertising group consists of or has been infiltrated by malicious code writers, this content can be slithered into an official ad rotation and becomes injected into what is believed to be a reputable site." So, we can see the same page at different times and from different locations and get entirely different advertisements injected into the page. Some advertisers may have been unknowingly hijacked by spammers who seek to recruit home computers as spambots. At other times the ads are as clean as the driven snow. It's a lottery. Regards, Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Mann > Sent: Sunday, 14 December 2008 6:44 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO - Oz Bird > > On Dec 14, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Anthony Farr wrote: > > > My guess is that a third party ad being inserted locally is the > > villain, so > > Australian and US viewers weren't exposed, but UK viewers were. > > I got it here in NZ. Safari gave me a big warning and a link to a > Google tool of some sort. I just closed the tab. > > - Dave > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
