Seattle P-I: Attack Site!
If you clicked over to a P-I story while using the newest version of Firefox you might recognize the image above. According to the P-I itself:
Part of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Web site was compromised by a computer virus that appears to have spread through online advertisements for NWAuto.
The ads have been removed and the website is safe. Unfortunately for the P-I its status as an “Attack Site!” has not been resolved yet.
It affected the Seattle Times, too (they share nwsource.com resources). I reported the issue around 3:00pm today, but nobody’s going to respond, as usual.
Their other major issue is that when something from their blog shows up in Google News (beta), it always looks like:
Seattle Post Intelligencer – 1 hour ago [link]www.seattlepi.com[/link] — Creates a link to the url between the link tags. [link title=”Seattle Post-Intelligencer”]www.
But it should look like:
Seattle Post Intelligencer – 1 hour ago http://www.seattlepi.com/blahblah.html Blah blan blah the first 2 lines of the blog post go here blah blah blah.
Good job, IT. You’re fired.