Web 2.0, Online Ads Can Spread Malware: Google

At times it seems as if doing business on the Web means living with risk, for users and marketers alike. Threats come up and spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about the viability of a channel (spam in all its forms), the accuracy of baseline metrics (click fraud, cookie deletion) or the integrity of e-commerce (data protection). In some cases, more or less acceptable solutions are found. More likely, the bad actors simply move on to the next more lucrative scam.

A team of Google researchers decided to add to our collective cyber-nightmares last week with a report that measured the number of pages out there on the Web that are capable of delivering malware