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Malicious Advertisement - Adobe Flash Player HD

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May 31, 2013 2013-05-31T06:31:02-05:00
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If you are browsing the web and the advertisement below appears on the page you are visiting, please do not click on it, even if the page you are visiting belongs to a popular and legitimate website such as msn.com, yahoo.com, bbc.com, or reuters.com. Cybercriminals were able to use legitimate advertisement network: Yieldmanager.com, to distribute this malicious advertisement to thousands of persons.

The Malicious Advertisement: Adobe Flash Player HD

Malicious Advertisement: Adobe Flash Player HD

Clicking on this advertisement will take you to malicious website http://www.softigloo.com, where you will be asked to download a fake free media player. I do not recommend downloading any software from this website because the fake software it have contain ad-wares, browser hijackers and other malicious software that may take control of your web browser.

Click here to read about this malicious website http://www.softigloo.com.

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Sep 15, 2013 at 8:05 AM by an anonymous user from: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

A Advert like appeared when I was watching a video. I cancelled the download before it hijacked by computer.