Suspected malware. Only affecting MLB.COM site.

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Paul

I have a problem. It may well be related to malware or maybe not.
Every time I click onto MLB.COM web site: http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp I get
referred to the following site.

http://www.hqtube.com/?5519000000

HQTUBE - World of streaming porn!.

The address given in Page Info:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/mlb.mlb/homepagepos=1sz=300x250tile=1ord=879088147

This may well be some sort of malware or a new marketing ploy by MLB.

It happens in all browsers. Only on the front page. Others are ok.
I need advice on how to get rid of this problem.

I have contacted MLB customer folks. They have referred it!
Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Paul.
 
Sounds like you have adware which detects the navigation to web site with
given keyword, i.e. mlb and makes targeting popup. I suggest to recheck your
file system with some antivirus. And then take a look at list of BHO
extension for IE - sounds like this dll is represented as BHO, which is able
to track BeforeNavigate & DocumentComplete handlers in IE.

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"Paul" <noname@noaddy.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I have a problem. It may well be related to malware or maybe not.
> Every time I click onto MLB.COM web site: http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp I
> get
> referred to the following site.
>
> http://www.hqtube.com/?5519000000
>
> HQTUBE - World of streaming porn!.
>
> The address given in Page Info:
>
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/mlb.mlb/homepagepos=1sz=300x250tile=1ord=879088147
>
> This may well be some sort of malware or a new marketing ploy by MLB.
>
> It happens in all browsers. Only on the front page. Others are ok.
> I need advice on how to get rid of this problem.
>
> I have contacted MLB customer folks. They have referred it!
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul.
 
First, just to confirm this is not spyware/adware as the other poster
mentions here. It is caused by a Flash advert which redirects when displayed.
It was reported to MLB.com at least five days ago yet nothing has been done
about it!!

"Paul" wrote:

>
> I have a problem. It may well be related to malware or maybe not.
> Every time I click onto MLB.COM web site: http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp I get
> referred to the following site.
>
> http://www.hqtube.com/?5519000000
>
> HQTUBE - World of streaming porn!.
>
> The address given in Page Info:
>
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/mlb.mlb/homepagepos=1sz=300x250tile=1ord=879088147
>
> This may well be some sort of malware or a new marketing ploy by MLB.
>
> It happens in all browsers. Only on the front page. Others are ok.
> I need advice on how to get rid of this problem.
>
> I have contacted MLB customer folks. They have referred it!
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul.
>
 
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