I guess folks who depend on advertising, and ad networks, need to be a bit more careful about who they sell ads to.

Crockford sums it up as (paraphrasing): We take time to perform all actions diligently and with the utmost regard towards security and privacy -- unless you pay us.

And, with all good standards, you get multiple choices for a solution. Crockford prefers his adsafe over Google's caja.

http://www.adsafe.org/ http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/

Good thing they put up everything behind a registration wall.

This happened to me yesterday. When I went to an NYT story, I was redirected to this "virus scan" page.

Same, but it happened on my iphone. I won't tell you how strange it was to see a "virus scan" in a Windows XP window on my iphone.

Did it look something like this?

http://imgur.com/1Lycn.png

A follow up: I found this article that described what was going on. http://troy.yort.com/anatomy-of-a-malware-ad-on-nytimes-com

Yup. Creepy, isn't it.

Happened to me yesterday, too, from an HN link - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819367

Same. I eventually refreshing a bunch of times recycled the ads and I was able to view the article without an annoying redirect.

Is this another sign that newspapers are getting even more desperate for advertising revenue?

At least it was accidental, and not intentional... If that counts.

Yeah, I noticed. I thought my gf had been on my computer again, so I checked with my work laptop. Nope, it was the NYT.