Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

[SoCal Pinstriper]

Only posted this because MLB.com is specifically mentioned. I assume that lots of members here go there too. Be warned.

The worst-case scenario used to be that online ads are pesky, memory-draining distractions. But a new batch of banner ads is much more sinister: They hijack personal computers and bully users until they agree to buy antivirus software.
And the ads do their dirty work even if you don't click on them.
The malware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball's MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their ads onto legitimate sites by way of DoubleClick's DART program. Web publishers use the DoubleClick-hosted platform to manage advertising inventory.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/n...11/doubleclick

[Changes]

I've been meaning to find a program that will prevent Doubleclick from loading an ad. Do you know of anything offhand?

[NewAmsterdamYankee]

Last few weeks I've had trouble on MLB.com.
I didn't click banners, but sometimes when I clicked a link to an article there was some spyware thing / page, which wanted me to download a file, which of course I didn't. very irritating.

[Espinosa's Glasses]

It is the banner ads that slow my computer down. It takes them forever and a day to load up... I wonder... hmm...