fire the yahoo programmers
fire the yahoo programmers who program the news web page. Corporate marketing heads should be overhauled too. Why?
Yahoo odd news page has ads which attempt to download malware, but the programmers are turning a deaf ear.
Exact example; reading the odd news and clicked on a story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-judge-swiped-2-cardholders-agrees-resign-193341734.html which contains ads which change by themselves so even if you go someplace and back to that page, the ads differ. One of those ads causes the FireFox update patch malware screen to appear. There is no way to know which ad caused the orange screen in the first place. Compounding this, the provider of the ad allows the ad to be housed on the advertisers system, not yahoos. This example, s0.2mdn.net branches to febreze.com and therin one sees the ad image is housed elsewhere, namely at pgsitecore.com . I do not suspect PGS/Febreze but there is no tracking what advertising agency is selling to whom, so a shady company can slip in this malware, making yahoo a risky place to visit by anyone not wanting a virus downloaded.
c olsen
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MidiMagic
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The ad rotator itself could be the malware. Also, the Firefox malware screen itself may be bogus.
My antivirus keeps blocking all links on Yahoo after a malware link is detected. I can't navigate at all. Then I have to reboot the computer to use Yahoo again.
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Joe Richards
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Adblock Ultimate is your best friend.
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Joe Richards
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Ensuring reader safety should be Yahoo's highest priority!!!
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c olsen
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different ads, and they 'rotate' and may be jpegs or videos or up one level, may test and decide to go elsewhere. Note the FF update only gets invoked once a day for a user.
Because the javascript programs which run by the agencies, the 'debug/trace' flag must be being tested for, as never will the orange FF screen appear when tracing the network. And some of the programs are in base 64, not readable text. Who can debug something when the bad guys are one step ahead. I've omitted the possibility of the server deciding when the ad should show or the orange screen. Marketing, in their quest for advertising dollars, does not consider the thousands of download attempts because of slopping programming and blind eyes.
Asking yahoo to help has proven to be worthless cause they just sell space to companies like tabaco and don't care when video is being downloaded when the news stories have their own video download. The list goes on and on.Oh, and is always the case, trying to get the malware screen to show is impossible (could not duplicate the problem - many sites response thusly). It is no concern to anyone that the update-patch site name changes after one day (which costs the bad guys zero dollars) and the selling site does not care, nor help. But yahoo could if they wanted to