Why does this not surprise me? Personally I don’t need any excuse or warning to stay far away from this sort of twisted journalism. If you’ve had the misfortune to be lured to their sleazy site, you might want to read this article over at the Security Forum on broadbandreports.com.
One of our more skilled scambusters and "malvertising" gurus has further dissected (with photos) the exact scumware delivery mechanism at work here — and notes that users don’t even need to click on an ad banner at the website in order to get infected. The vsm_free_setup.exe forced download the ads are instituting originates from Russia or the Ukraine, and appears to involve a keylogger.
I have been avoiding this site like the plague since I spent over 20 hours removing from a users computer a mal-formed cookie from this site that caused Internet Explorer to refuse to open any links. To make matters worse, this user had foxnews set as their homepage. And now, a couple of months later, and this episode. Congratulations FoxNews.com you have made your way onto this System Administrator’s ban list.
Here’s the jump to a very detailed analysis of the situation: Re: foxnews.com infected?
