[geeks] filtering out web base trojan?

[Jonathan Katz]

On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:58 AM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Yep, over 10,000 sites counted by
> http://www.incidents.org/diary.html?storyid=4139.
>
> I've seen, twice, "advertisements" carried by normally-OK websites  
> that pop
> up that "your computer is infected" box.  Evidently, the bad guys have
> compromised some advertising-distribution server[s], in addition to  
> the
> IFRAME issue.  Or maybe it it's the same issue.

Does the Adblock plug-in for firefox help in this situation,  
especially with the addition of the Filterset.G updater?

-Jon