Unexpected Advertisement in The New York Times
Monday, September 14, 2009
By Brianna Carlson
Over the past weekend, an unreliable and unknown person put a nasty advertisement onto The New York Times' web site.
As people looked at the site, the advertisement would take over their computer. The visitor's screen would fill with an image that seemed it was scanning for a virus.
The users were told they needed to buy a certain antivirus software to fix the problem. The software ended up being no good. It is unclear to how many users were affected.
As of now, The Times is working with law enforcement to find the criminal. They are also working on ways to make the site have new policies so this kind of thing will not happen again.
This issue is becoming a bigger problem. Since the internet is becoming widely used, more than just The New York Times are having issues. Computer criminals are recently known to attack online ad systems.
