What's with the flash warning?

[iapplelove]

Ok, same here. I just killed Safari each time.

I clicked ok but it wasn't doing anything. After that I just killed safari

 

[arn]

It was a (Windows) exe so it is unlikely to have affected any Mac or iOS device.

arn

 

[NitroZip]

Would the .exe even have executed?

Posted that just as you posted arn

 

[iapplelove]

It was a (Windows) exe so it is unlikely to have affected any Mac or iOS device.

arn

ok cool. I did hit ok a few times on an iOS device

 

[sracer]

Looks like they admitted the issue:

https://twitter.com/Pagefair/status/660615885766434816

sorry about it. Ironically, we installed pagefair to see what our ad-blocking percentage was, which is something they measure.

arn

...not only measure, but cause to increase.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

...not only measure, but cause to increase.

Yes, a profound amen to that.

 

[JackieInCo]

I read on ARS that the PageFair site was hacked on Halloween night and this caused many people visiting sites who used PageFairs analytics to get the flash out of date warning. If clicked on, users who were tricked into install.

EDIT: I see it was already talked about.

 

[iapplelove]

I read on ARS that the PageFair site was hacked on Halloween night and this caused many people visiting sites who used PageFairs analytics to get the flash out of date warning. If clicked on, users who were tricked into install.

EDIT: I see it was already talked about.

I read it only effected PC machines

 

[997440]

Ars Technica article ---

....Fortunately, the malware was detected by F-Secure and likely competing antivirus packages as well. Additionally, a large percentage of connections to the attacker servers failed. On top of that, NanoCore runs only on Windows, so people visiting on machines running other operating systems were immune to the attack. PageFair's Blanchfield estimated that only 2.3 percent of people visiting one of the 501 affected sites during the attack would have been at risk of being infected. Still, the incident is the latest to show how people visiting known sites can still be exposed to drive-by attacks with serious consequences.

http://arstechnica.com/security/201...king-service-to-deliver-nasty-malware-attack/