Malicious Facebook Ad Redirects to Fake Antivirus Software

A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirected users to fake antivirus software, according to a security researcher. The banner advertisement for greeting cards was intermittently displayed with an application called Farm Town, which has more than 9 million monthly users according to information published on Facebook. If the bad Shockwave Flash advertisement was displayed, the user was redirected from Facebook through several domains and ended up on a Web site selling fake antivirus software, said Sandi Hardmeier, who studies malicious advertisements and blogged about the issue