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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/

This happened to me yesterday. When I went to an NYT story, I was redirected to this "virus scan" page.
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.
Good thing they put up everything behind a registration wall.
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.