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Surprise, You've Got Spyware
Perhaps nothing is more ironic than pesky banner ads claiming that your site is hosting every kind of virus known to man and then offering to clean it up -- for a small fee of course. As more social networking users increasingly fear malware on their computers, they become bigger targets for these kinds of pop-up adware, tricking them to download fake anti-virus cleaners which are benign at best and destructive at worst. The irony of course is that this kind of adware is doing the very things that they're trying to prevent.
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