Comments on: Eyewonder- Digital Advertiser Throws Popular Sites Mashable and Icanhascheezburger into Malicious Spam Bin

By: EyeWonder

EyeWonder — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:22:36 +0000

The EyeWonder.com site suffered a malware attack on July 3 and caused our domain to be tagged as a malicious by the automated systems at Google. The issue has been resolved. Our ad delivery system and website are fully operational.

By: jonathon

jonathon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:59:31 +0000

I know Eyewonder.com isn’t malware because I have seen their ads for years, and never seen any issues, so I’m not surprised that the reports say there was no real malware. I’m annoyed that Google caused such a mess by their malfunctioning software. Please contact Google to fix this quickly so we can view our sites again!!! They are probably off on the 4th of July and not even paying attention to what they have done. Just another example of how Google has gotten too big and has been causing problems for everyone on the web.

By: Benn Rosales

Benn Rosales — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:43:44 +0000

@_ew @mashable when I asked @mattcutts this morning, I’m guessing he had no idea how widespread it was because it was a pretty casual response- I’d really like to know what the traffic damage was across so many sites.

Dancho over at ZDnet just picked up the story here http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3694

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:31:10 +0000

The latest updates for this are on the Eyewonder Twitter account: http://twitter.com/_EW

Latest info is that no malware actually appeared on any of the affected sites (CNN, Washington Post, Engadget, Mashable) but instead Google marked the EW domain as a malware site and thus displayed warnings on all network sites.

By: sheilabragg (sheilabragg)

sheilabragg (sheilabragg) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:14:02 +0000

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By: Ian Greenleigh

Ian Greenleigh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:58:35 +0000

Hyperconnectivity is not always a good thing. As an old West Austin blue-blood might say, “One must be exceptionally careful who one associates with.” They couldn’t be more right these days.