Quote Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama View Post

Thorn- It was internal pics cyclingnews posts. The ones embedded in their articles that you can "click to enlarge". Not sure if it matters and if I hadn't clicked I guess I would have been a-ok?
I always run with "Prompt before running ActiveX controls" (yes, I'm an anal-retentive control freak and, yes, lots of people have told me I'm nuts, but it has reduced the number of problems I have, but, of course, not eliminated them). There actually are ActiveX controls on the zoomed image displays. Cyclingnews is actually one of the cleaner sites. They usually only have one or two controls/page.

A large proportion of times people have gotten viruses from large sites has not been due to a direct compromise to the site, but to the ad stream. Not only can the hacker get deeper coverage by getting into the ad stream, but it is harder to trace.