Bad practices, left right and center expose MyWebSearch and Ask.com
November 4th, 2008
What seems to be a spam comment on a YouTube video takes me to some places I didn’t want to go.
I followed the link above and landed on a site that asks me to install a toolbar (in order to view a video featuring Miley Cyrus… or so it says…)
Which takes me to a very artistic page (to say the least).
Once the install is done, I can’t help but notice the checkbox to install the Search Assistant from Ask.com
Here is the toolbar, and another brightly coloured website.
That toolbar is detected by many AV vendors as Adware.
Oh, and the original YouTube account that sent me the link so graciously has been suspended. Go figure…
Jerome
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