Friday, March 14, 2008
 
That's Not MSN
While looking up the lyrics for the song "Fred Bear" by Ted Nugent (referred to below), I saw something in the corner of my screen that I thought was a little....suspicious.

That's not really MSN
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That little layer that pops up with the butterfly and offers you the opportunity to download ringtones based on the song you're looking at has been crafted to look like a Windows / MSN Messanger alert, but it's not; its target is login.tracking101.com, which is apparently some sleazy adware serving company.

You know, I'm duly suspicious of any ad that masks itself as a function of another program. Suitably so, in most cases.


- posted by Brian J. @ 12:41 PM
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