MacComputerGuy

This is taken from a site I read daily : "A number of my clients have had a malicious pop-up freeze their web browser in the past couple of months. The example below purports to be from Apple, complete with Apple and Safari Icons and the text "Apple has detected some suspicious activity from your IP address . . .", but a glance at the web address in the header shows it isn't Apple. After going on about "Spyware" an...Continue reading

This is how modern internet advertising works: "This is very simplified, but basically, when you click on a link to load a web site, the web server sends all the information it can collect from your browser (browser fingerprint, link source, cookie information, etc.) to multiple advertising systems. These systems look at the your information, and post that information to a real time auction system. Bidders then look at the information and submit bids to the action site to pla...ce an ad into that slot on the web page. The ad you actually see is the one with the highest bid. All of this occurs in a few hundred milliseconds or less, for every ad you see on the page. This is why you may see dozens of trackers - the advertises, bid firms, and others want to make sure they know what advertisement was shown so that each party is sure they are being paid or credited properly. Not all of the bidders for advertising slots are legitimate, and since the web site does not know, even as the page is loading, what advertisement will actually be shown or where it is from, they will claim that they are not responsible for the malware. The auction houses will take a similar stance. Note that typically the web pages are designed not to show the main content until after all the advertisements have been loaded, which means if an advertiser server is slow, you may not see the page for some time." (from: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html)

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