In a story that hits a little too close to home, The New York Times has posted a "note" to online readers to be aware of phony ads running on its site. Some readers have apparently seen unauthorized
pop-up ads promoting antivirus software on NYTimes.com, so the paper is warning visitors who see the ad not to click on it but to restart their browsers instead. The whole matter of malware must have
a few online readers thinking back to simpler times, when the only risks the paper presented were inky fingers and the occasional paper cut.
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