thanks to luke tan for once again drawing my attention to a compromised website, only this time it was not a blogger blog, it was the avast web forum serving up malware with an exploit to get it automagically installed...
wilders security has some good initial details details and it seems to the forum admin's credit (as well as those who reported the problem in the first place) it was caught fast and the forum shut down for maintenance to limit the damage that could be done to the public at large...
the forum is back up now and apparently free from the malware that was previously being served and apparently breaking core functionality of the forum... let's hope it stays that way - but for those who visited while it was behaving strangely, you might want to do a formal scan of your entire system just to be on the safe side (although since avast itself, along with a number of other anti-malware products, was able to detect and block the malware i suspect most of the forum's users would not be affected)...
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