RiskIQ the security intelligence company during one lately Washington, D.C., held security conference stated that advertisements, which had malicious content, revealed the possibility of contaminating innumerable computers. Business.newsfactor.com published this dated November 4, 2011.
Shedding light on the problem, the research company referring to people visiting highly accessed Internet sites said that they were coming across advertisements, which contaminated their PCs, while the ad market on the Internet was doing a great deal towards the problem's mitigation.
CEO Elias Manousos on behalf of RiskIQ reported that the company, during May 2011, recorded malvertisement incidences numbering 14,694 that were the highest in the month compared to 1,533 during May 2010. Every tainted advertisement had the possibility of infecting innumerable website visitors' computers depending on the length of time of the advertisement's display, he further alerted. The Last Watchdog published this dated November 2, 2011.
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