Its not Drudge serving the ads/malware. The banner ads actaully come via a advertising company. The pukes that put this stuff out submit their ads hoping to get thru the filters. Occasionally they do, even though the advertising companies spend a lot of time reviewing the code.
I’ve often wondered what these virus purveyors get out of creating this kind of havoc. The best answer I can come up with is they are trying to sell anti-virus software:)
Up until a couple of years ago, I worked at a major university. It received more than 3 million attempted virus attacks a week, keeping their IT department very busy. To get out in front of the onslaught, they installed McAfee on every computer and even updated the dat files automatically. One of the bad side effects for the average user was that often emails with attachments were rerouted directly to the trash or spam file without ever being seen by the recipient. With their T3 fiber optic connections, universities are a favorite target of hackers.
Exactly. It's the ads embedded on a website, Drudge among many others. The ads run a JavaScript program. It the program is not sandboxed, it gets control of your browser and redirects to a new page that has the malware download from that new page. It's a big problem with ads on websites. The ad companies really need to do a better job, but they are lazy.