re: I keep getting malware warnings.

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My guess would be it's germane to whatever ad tracking software is being used here, but that's just a hunch.

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What happened was that the public website of Netseer, an online ad-placement service rather than a "known malware distributor," was itself corrupted with malware, perhaps in an attempt to instigate drive-by downloads.

"This morning at about 5:30am PT, our 3rd party-hosted corporate website (netseer.com) was infected with a malware [sic]," said a Netseer email sent to websites that used the company's ad service. "Consequently, Google added our domain to the list of malware-affected websites.

"Our ad-serving infrastructure is completely different from the corporate website, but shares the same domain (netseer.com). So although the malware never impacted the ad serving, all our ad-serving partners saw Chrome and other browsers flagging malware warnings to users."

In other words, because the Netseer public page was infected, Google blocked all content coming from that domain name, including ads. No actual malware was transmitted across the ad network.

Sites affected by Google's block included those of the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Guardian, TheStreet.com, Hollywood Reporter and IMDb.com, among many others.

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