ITV site carried scareware ads

Rogue security product pushed by ads on several UK TV sites.

Several UK television-related websites, including those of major broadcaster

ITV

and listings guide

Radio Times

, have been penetrated by rogue advertising pushing fake anti-malware products.

The ads, introduced onto the sites by compromised advertising laced with redirects, lead site visitors to downloads of ‘Cleanator’, a well-known rogue anti-malware program which attempts to scam victims with warnings of bogus malware infections.

Apple Mac

users are pushed a similar sham product

reported recently

for the

Mac

, ‘MacSweeper’.

The sites in question have been informed of the suspect ads and some at least have removed the unwanted content. More details are in

The Register


here

and on the

Sophos

blog

here

.

Posted on 21 February 2008 by

Virus Bulletin