ClixSense Warning - Trojan Virus Downloaded

ClixSense users click various ads to make a very small amount of money. However, it was discovered and verified that at least one of these ads/web-sites, contained a Trojan virus (namely, TrojanDownloader:JS/Agent.IH). Apparently, there are no security checks performed on these customer ads by ClixSense or the quality of these checks lacks rigor, so users beware and consider yourself forewarned!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

ClixSense Advertisement Downloaded a Trojan

While clicking an ad to view on the ClixSense web-site, the anti-virus software warned us immediately that a Trojan virus was downloaded on our computer. Be aware that the ad below contained the virus. DO NOT CLICK this ad and its related web-page!










BTW: If you clicked this ad (or even if you're not sure that you specifically did) and you don't have any anti-software running on your computer... you may be infected.  Microsoft now offers FREE anti-virus/anti-spyware software - called Microsoft Securty Essentials - which can detect and more importantly, remove it!  You can download it from their web-site.  Please read all the directions before downloading...


UPDATE (1/22/2010): ClixSense has removed the above ad - here is their response:

   Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 10:15 AM

   From: ClixSense Information
   Subject: RE: [Severe Warning] Clixsense ad source of Trojan downloader...
  

   Thank you. We have removed this ad from our system.

   ClixSense Support
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