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Home » Archives » 2007 » Dec » 27 » MarketingVOX Snookered by Trojan Horse. This morning MarketingVOX ran an ad campaign containing a trojan-horse-like Flash mechanism that produced a pop-up ad for a fake “performance optimizer. The ad campaign, which launched yesterday the 26th of December, initially tested fine — showing an ad for a multimedia technology called Sound F/X — and exhibited trojan horse behavior starting this morning. MarketingVOX ran about 1,300 impressions of the ad early today before it was caught and terminated. MarketingVOX trafficking staff was warned about Flash-based ruse campaigns after several incidents (like this and this ) came to light over the past year and a half, where major publishers fell victim to spyware distribution schemes. The trojan horse version of the ad attempted to get readers to voluntarily download a program that would allegedly scan a hard drive for spyware and other malware. More Spyware News

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