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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on July 21, 2006, 15:08

Title: MySpace faces security problems
Post by: Clive on July 21, 2006, 15:08
More than one million MySpace users could have been caught out by a banner advert that installs spyware via a Windows bug.

Those who fell victim were bombarded with pop-up adverts and had their net browsing habits monitored by the malicious software.

Reports suggest the advert has been running on MySpace for about a week.

 
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