Trojan Condom Posters Banned by UK Ad Authorities
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British advertising authorities said on  Wednesday they have banned racy Trojan condom poster adverts  with the phrase "Come online & play the sex organ."
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Warning over Valentines viruses   Security experts are warning PC users to be on guard against viruses masquerading as Valentine's Day messages, which could damage computers.
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A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.Google may be powerless to stop the trick since it involves the modification of an internal PC file, called the hosts file, that is used to match domain names of Web sites with IP (Internet protocol) addresses, said Romanian security company BitDefender.When a person visits a Web site, the browser checks the hosts file to see if it has an IP address for a particular domain name. If the hosts file is corrupted or hijacked, the browser can be directed to fetch a different Web page than the one the user intended to.Modifying the hosts file can be done for legitimate reasons. For example, PC users can change the hosts to block banner ads served from known ad networks. When a Web page tries to contact an ad server, the request is diverted by the hosts file and no ad appears.BitDefender said in an advisory this particular malware directs a browser to download advertisements from a different server than Google&#39;s ad server.BitDefender named the malware Trojan.Qhost.WU and said it is not spreading fast and poses a &quot;medium&quot; risk of damage. It did not say how the Trojan is being circulated, and company representatives did not return a call for comment.Besides costing Google ad revenue, there is a danger that those replacement advertisements could contain links to sites with malicious software, BitDefender said. Web site owners who buy ads through Google, as well as Google itself, can lose out on both Web traffic and revenue if people are diverted from its ads.There is not much that Google can do for those who download the malware. However, security products such as BitDefender&#39;s can detect and remove it.Without commenting on the Trojan specifically, Google said it removes Web sites from its search index that contain malware.&quot;We have canceled customer accounts that display ads re-directing users to malicious sites or that advertise a product violating our software principles,&quot; the company said in a statement.
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A new Trojan horse modifies infected PC's hosts file to replace Google text ads with ads from another source.
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Infected graphical images that can implant a backdoor into a Windows computer if they are viewed have been spotted on Usenet. EasyNews, a provider of Usenet newsgroups, said it has identified two JPEG images
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China&#39;s top two universities have suspended a free handout of condoms, describing the plan as inappropriate. China is grappling with AIDS but the country&#39;s top two universities do not want their students touching condoms.
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Days after banning &quot;sexually provocative sounds&quot; on television, China has now stopped networks showing &quot;saucy&quot; adverts for push-up bras and figure-hugging underwear ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: The only mystery in the banning of the re-run 'Go to work on an egg' ads is why the danger wasn't spotted earlier.
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Top News News, Hyderabad, Buy your favourite booze from any vendor or style your hair at any barber&#39;s, but don&#39;t forget to pick up the free condoms!
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Pls do nt dstrb da nabrs as u lv UK.gov has unveiled its latest weapon in its battle against illegal immigration â the fearsome text message.â¦
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An identity-stealing e-mail Trojan horse that disguises itself as the Lycos Europe antispam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet, an antivirus company has warned.
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InfoWorld - A security company has identified a Trojan horse program that replaces Google text advertisements on Web pages with ads from another source, depriving Google of revenue and potentially causing problems for end users.
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Advertising regulators banned a hair care ad on Wednesday featuring Australian cricketer Shane Warne, which, they said, implies the product cures baldness.
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Lycos UK has withdrawn its anti-spam screensaver download from its portal following criticism that the vigilante-style programme had been too successful against spammersâ websites, shutting down a range of sites.
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New sales of these once-popular products have been banned. Now what?
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A PC, PS2 and Xbox-based trivia game has been banned in the US after a teenager alleged that the title contains topless video pictures of her, used not only without her permission but filmed when she was a minor.
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BEIJING  - Two top Beijing universities have suspended a programme to distribute free condoms to students to prevent HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites), frowning on it as &quot;inappropriate&quot;.