Comments on: Mashable.com Malware Detected? Breaking Story

By: EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:09:35 +0000

[...] popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Engadget and Chip.de, are reporting that parts of the web [...]

By: teksquisite

teksquisite — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:12:45 +0000

http://www.google.com/safebrow.....&hl=en

That ad site is a mess – I’ll place my money on Google. If you click on any of the links in that first link above – such as:
http://www.google.com/safebrow.....&hl=en
(elfahnet) Malicious software includes 6614 scripting exploit(s), 3838 trojan(s), 3027 exploit(s).

By: teksquisite

teksquisite — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:04:05 +0000

I’ll bet that is why Firefox kept crashing every time I went to mashable today – hoping the offensive ad has been blocked.

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:45:12 +0000

It’s not us, it’s a site called eyewonder that serves ads to many major sites: I got one this morning on CNN.com. Don’t think there’s a genuine maware threat: it’s Google mis-flagging eyewonder.

Hopefully they’ll address it soon.

By: Maxie

Maxie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:35:09 +0000

I got the Google warning this morning, 7/3, when browsing on icanhascheezburger.com. I sent a copy of the message to icanhascheezburger.com but haven’t herad baCK from them yet.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:27:24 +0000

Same warning coming up at other sites, also ones which would never knowingly host anything malicious.

By: Brad Coy

Brad Coy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:04:38 +0000

for the past few days I have not been able to go the Mashable without my browser crashing (in Firefox). strange