What is Digg?116 Comments
- sockpuppets, on 04/29/2008, -1/+73I viewed this page and now my cat is missing and there's a ransom note on his bowl. Something is definitely afoot.
- snotrokit, on 04/29/2008, -7/+57adblock FTW
- slapded, on 04/29/2008, -1/+42i always click banner ads.
- CBZKT, on 04/29/2008, -1/+27lol, yahoo is getting back at microsoft by infecting their OS with malware
- WernerCD, on 04/29/2008, -4/+23Adblock + Noscript
- fiskehaps, on 04/29/2008, -0/+16yahoo isn't only a search machine
- maelnum, on 04/29/2008, -0/+15Did the note say "WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF 1 Million Dollar WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!"?
- unluckier, on 04/29/2008, -4/+17Attention-getting headline and all, but does anybody have any details to back it up? The yahoo banner ad is described in a little more detail here:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/default.aspx
However, there's *no* mention of malware installation. The most that seems to be happening is a request being made to a domain that is of unknown or advertising nature. From a security perspective, this is about on par with a web bug or perhaps a cookie. Does anybody have anything else? - bradb59, on 04/29/2008, -1/+12hmm.. I think a *few* might use it since it is still the number 1 web location in the US, and many part of Asia
- nmcvicke, on 04/29/2008, -3/+13Yahoo Astrology? Was there a demand for this????
- 4d669, on 04/29/2008, -1/+11Is it just me or did digg's IQ drop about 50 points today?
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -1/+10Yahoo kidnap cat has been kidnapped.
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -11/+20Yahoo?? People still use that??? As for me..i use THE GOOGLES. ON THE INTERNETS...OF COURSE
- lolinyerface, on 04/29/2008, -0/+9What are these....'ads' that you speak of?
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -2/+10Yahoo? Malware?!? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Well not that shocked.
- Jeffler, on 04/29/2008, -2/+9I'm sorry, but am I the only one who laughed at the fact they censored pussy in pussy-juice, and then left all the screenshots with it out in the open?
- Scynet, on 04/29/2008, -0/+6I think you're talking about this:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
It's indeed very useful. - blackjack75, on 04/29/2008, -2/+7... although I might stop because I started losing confidence. I paid three times for my penis enlarger and never received it.
- SysstemLord, on 04/29/2008, -0/+5"Search machine" FTW
- JavertHolmes, on 04/29/2008, -3/+8If you clicked the red button beside my parent post, did you do it because:
[ ] You are a spammer yourself and know the power of blocking a site at the host level?
[ ] You run a blog and are afraid of not receiving your google ad revenue?
[ ] I violated the holiness of AdBlock?
[ ] Insert bad attempt at a sarcastic reason tangential to the other options here.
Thank you for your cooperation. - Dongvid, on 04/29/2008, -3/+8Back to metacrawler and altavista, I suppose.
- Totz83, on 04/29/2008, -2/+7Bite my shiny metal ass! =p
- olenick, on 04/29/2008, -0/+4Go Jerry. Maybe next he'll start a spam hosting business. TK: help!!!!
- Hewbie, on 04/29/2008, -0/+4this is another reason why i use firefox with no-script/ ad-block plus plug-ins, because safe sites using ads/pop-up get hijacked by malicious malware ;)
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -2/+6Adblock + noscript + Firefox ON WEED!
- secrity, on 04/29/2008, -1/+5According to TFA "Typically, the ads produce a pop up that looks strikingly similar to official Windows dialog pop-ups that urge the end user to download software to fix problems.". In my case I would know not to click on this sort of pop-up, especially because I run Linux.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/29/2008, -1/+5ha ha, neopets.
- JavertHolmes, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3I am, and that's the one I use. I just didn't want to link it specifically as it looks too spammy.
- WernerCD, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
Mike's is the one I use. Solves alot of problems outside of FF (IE when *must* use it, ad driven programs, etc). - BXRWXR, on 04/29/2008, -2/+5How does one defend against this if they don't want to run NoScript?
- JavertHolmes, on 04/29/2008, -3/+6Just as an example of a sanity check on a unix-type system, I type something such as:
grep -ve ^127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts | less
at the command line and browse the entries that pop up manually. Again, if someone knows a flaw in this, I'd sincerely love to hear about it as it's been my sanity check for years now and if someone can still sneak in a redirected host, I'd like to know about it. - xxgigavirusxx, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3I haven't seen them
Oo Wait.. Adblock Plus.. i forgot - Nougat, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3Malware has been shoved through ads for some time, and when it is, it's generally weeded out fairly quickly. This is not something special to Yahoo, though having it go on for days is curious.
- diggerpleez, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3that is a workaround... the solution? Download [insert your Linux distro here]
Any operating system whose users are admins by default are subject to this nonsense. Wear all the condoms you want, the risk is still there. - Ryosen, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3Yahoo's banner ads are allowing PCs to get infected? I didn't realize that the merger with Microsoft had gone through already.
- christopherRB, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2haha no matter microsoft wants them so bad!
- inactive, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Idiot?
- Chris4, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Google FTW
- socokoolaid, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Various Yahoo banner ads have added what Spybot Search and Destroy calls spyware to my machine off and on for the last 7 to 10 years.
- ThePikey, on 04/29/2008, -1/+3USA Today had this problem as well. One advertisers banner was bad news.
- RoanokeRich, on 04/29/2008, -3/+5Why am I not surprised by this?
- secrity, on 04/29/2008, -2/+4I am afraid that I was unable to RTFA, but I believe that this is a Windows only problem. I run Linux to prevent this sort of problem, otehrs run an Apple OS to prevent this sort of problem.
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2using a hosts file with edexter helps clean up the spaces that the blocked ads leave behind. You can have it display any image you want in its place. Or, a plain white blox. But on many sites, I don't see anything. Including Digg. I don't even know where the ads on Digg are.
- CDoug03, on 04/29/2008, -4/+6Something strange is afoot a the Circle K
- JavertHolmes, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2I agree. The meaning of my original post was not that the two should be used mutually exclusively, but cooperatively as you suggest. The wording of my post sounded so strict because many suggest adblock as a panacea, when really the two solutions work better together.
- Philbert, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2That's what I was thinking. I use Yahoo Groups frequently (since before they bought it), though I rarely visit the site to do so. I have a Yahoo Mail account, but only because it transferred over when they bought out Rocketmail and renamed it. Still, the current incarnation of Yahoo Mail is pretty fancy and I think a good number of people use it.
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2pics or it didn't happen.
- bincoder, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1I dont like yahoo and I dont click any ads anywhere by anybody. The ads on TV are annoying enough, and guess what? They still fail miserably at getting me to run off to the store and buy something. Turning off scripting takes care of the sneaky non click type.
- javaroast, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the edexter tip. I had not seen that before.
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