Suspected malware. Only affecting MLB.COM site.

[Paul]

I have a problem. It may well be related to malware or maybe not.
Every time I click onto MLB.COM web site: http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp I get
referred to the following site.

http://www.hqtube.com/?5519000000

HQTUBE - World of streaming porn!.

The address given in Page Info:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/mlb.mlb/homepagepos=1sz=300x250tile=1ord=879088147

This may well be some sort of malware or a new marketing ploy by MLB.

It happens in all browsers. Only on the front page. Others are ok.
I need advice on how to get rid of this problem.

I have contacted MLB customer folks. They have referred it!
Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Paul.

 

[Volodymyr Shcherbyna]

Sounds like you have adware which detects the navigation to web site with
given keyword, i.e. mlb and makes targeting popup. I suggest to recheck your
file system with some antivirus. And then take a look at list of BHO
extension for IE - sounds like this dll is represented as BHO, which is able
to track BeforeNavigate & DocumentComplete handlers in IE.

--
Volodymyr
NG tips:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/v_scherbina/pages/microsoft-newsgroups-tips.aspx
"Paul" <noname@noaddy.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> I have a problem. It may well be related to malware or maybe not.
> Every time I click onto MLB.COM web site: http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp I
> get
> referred to the following site.
>
> http://www.hqtube.com/?5519000000
>
> HQTUBE - World of streaming porn!.
>
> The address given in Page Info:
>
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/mlb.mlb/homepagepos=1sz=300x250tile=1ord=879088147
>
> This may well be some sort of malware or a new marketing ploy by MLB.
>
> It happens in all browsers. Only on the front page. Others are ok.
> I need advice on how to get rid of this problem.
>
> I have contacted MLB customer folks. They have referred it!
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul.

 

[Steve]

First, just to confirm this is not spyware/adware as the other poster
mentions here. It is caused by a Flash advert which redirects when displayed.
It was reported to MLB.com at least five days ago yet nothing has been done
about it!!

"Paul" wrote:

>
> I have a problem. It may well be related to malware or maybe not.
> Every time I click onto MLB.COM web site: http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp I get
> referred to the following site.
>
> http://www.hqtube.com/?5519000000
>
> HQTUBE - World of streaming porn!.
>
> The address given in Page Info:
>
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/mlb.mlb/homepagepos=1sz=300x250tile=1ord=879088147
>
> This may well be some sort of malware or a new marketing ploy by MLB.
>
> It happens in all browsers. Only on the front page. Others are ok.
> I need advice on how to get rid of this problem.
>
> I have contacted MLB customer folks. They have referred it!
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul.
>