AVG users who wanted to access The Pirate Bay in the last two days found that it was actively blocked by their anti-virus software. The popular torrent indexer contains active threats says AVG, that advises its users not to visit the site.
As most torrent sites, The Pirate Bay is bombarded with spam and scam related torrents every day. Moderators usually take care of these nasty uploads though so users usually don’t even notice they were there.
Malicious uploaders are not the only threat for torrent sites though, even more dangerous are the scammy advertisers who try to pass on trojans and other viruses through the site’s ads. Although these ads are often quickly banned by the ad network, they are online long enough to do some serious damage.
This weekend The Pirate Bay fell prey to such a malicious advertiser. As a result AVG anti-virus is now preventing Pirate Bay users from accessing the site, which can be annoying, but beats being infected by a trojan.
At the moment the issue with the malicious ads has been resolved and we expect than AVG will soon white-list the site so it can be accesses without any hassles.
Article from: FreakBits