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Re: Another WinFixer infiltration...this time on www.wfaa.com

An update: I tried going to the Local News section tonight
with my hosts file temporarily disabled and my ad filter
turned off. (Risky, I know, but I knew what to do should a
redirect occur.)

I reloaded the Local News page about 4-5 times (just short
of the point at which the site prompts for membership), but
couldn't get even one redirect. If their IT was on the ball
about it, they would have taken action on the complaint I
sent them through their email system. Hopefully they have.

WinFixer is a variant of one of the most common trojan
infections, Vundo. According to Sandi Hardmeier, who first
found they had infiltrated AOL's and MSN Messenger's ad
networks, the company responsible is Valueclick. They
claimed to have dropped Winfixer as a client, yet Sandi
has found that flash ads from a Valueclick domain,
adfarm.mediaplex.com, are still redirecting web surfers
to Winfixer domains:

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