Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Spotify withdraw an advertising virus

Spotify has warned that an announcement on its service contained a virus. There was no need to click on the advertisement for this machine contaminated surfer. The advertisement mimicked the installation of a fake antivirus program. According to Spotify, who have installed on your machine protection against the virus were safe from infection.

The company says it has withdrawn the ad and apologized to Internet users who may have been affected by it. Spotify claims to work for situations like this do not recur and can still access the service safely. The vulnerability affected the subscribers free of charge.

Sweden and United Kingdom are the countries mainly affected by contagion. Spotify has seven million members, six of which use the free version.

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