Malicious ads with ransomware strike

[KansasSooner]

Malicious advertisements on major websites lead to ransomware | PCWorld

One of the sites in the article is go.com, the site that hosts ESPN...would not click on any ad over there for a while.

 

[HammerDown]

Good grief.

 

[WizardHawk]

Another good example of why running your browser in sandboxie might be a good idea. Sandboxing your browser can help prevent many of these. Of course along with making sure java, silverlight, and flash are always up to date and your OS patched.