Yahoo users' PCs infected by malware from ads
Security firm SurfRight estimates that 2.5 million PCs could have been affected
Visitors of Yahoo.com have been infected with malware, the internet firm has admitted. Dutch security firm Fox IT wrote in a blog that adverts on Yahoo's European websites served by ads.yahoo.com had...
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