Mystery Diary Digest: Dot.Tunes, Orange Flash Ad and Mysterious ID Q76123

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Introduction

There is some confusion involving the orange Flash ad. So we’ve decided to spend a lot of time and explain to our visitors how it started and what is going on from the beginning. And they can make their own conclusions.






Beginning

In mid-December 2007, we started seeing something different on our websites. First, we saw white-yellow Flash ads (a young man in it) that are related to MP3 music. We then started seeing an orange horizontal Flash ad (728 x 90 pixels). When this orangeFlash ad started appearing, we also started experience something unpleasant on our websites. Involuntary redirection to Malware Alarm‘s website (malware-scan.com)… There was always this orange Flash ad running at our website before and after the involuntary redirection. It’s not like we have something against the individual or company who ran this particular Flash ad. Inevitably, we came to believe that this orange Flash ad was used as a medium to redirect us and our visitors to the malware scan website.






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Malware-Scan.Com, DotTunes.Net’s Flash Ad and Computer Virus

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We first reported the danger of dottunes.net‘s orange Flash ad brought by AdECN several days ago. A situation involving this Flash ad and malware-scan.com has changed dramatically. We now strongly advise that you avoid any website displaying this Flash ad because none of the ad companies involved with this Flash ad has done anything decisive to eliminate imminent danger.






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More Evidence for Dot.Tunes Flash Banner As Source of Ill Redirection to Malware-Scan.Com

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TOKYO (MacHouse) – A few days ago, we reported an issue with Dot.Tunes‘ orange Flash ad, which we suspected of being responsible for the redirection of our visitors to Malware-Scan.Com‘s deceitful website. We were obliged to run the suspicious Flash ad so that our ad company Canep Media and others possibly including AdECN could investigate our claim. Again, if you were consistently redirected to Malware-Scan.Com’s spam site in the past, please accept our apology.






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