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Facebook found pimping crudware

11 Jul 2007 01:47

Serves up ads for deceptive security software

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Not terribly surprising... 

By David Wiernicki
Posted Wednesday 11th July 2007 03:09 GMT

...given that they've been spamming me at my work address for a couple of months now. I get ads straight from facebook (not an affil, and directlinked in the emails so nobody else could benefit) every couple of weeks.

Of course, everyone knows that spammers only hawk viagra and penny stocks, so nobody calls them on it.

Dating service? 

By Clayton Smith
Posted Wednesday 11th July 2007 07:58 GMT

So you were browsing for women on the net and ended up with something to write a story about. Way to go!

$10.00 for 5000 adverts! 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 11th July 2007 09:00 GMT

Bargin! Never mind the crudware. Imagin the fun you could have with 5000 adverts saying whatever you want!

Or you could just use NoScript 

By Steve Osmond
Posted Wednesday 11th July 2007 20:56 GMT

and avoid all crap like this

I got this 

By Gaz
Posted Thursday 12th July 2007 00:18 GMT

I had this and thought Id been infected somewhere... now I know why a scan returned nothing.

I didn't even click the ad :/

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