Warning! About IGN Just to give everyone a heads up I wouldn't recommend visiting IGN at the moment until they remove the ads that are transmitting viruses/spyware/etc to your computer. I picked up 8 viruses/etc including a key logger from their site ads. I was able to successfully remove all of it with spyware doctor thankfully.
Was this even with running a spyware detector and your firewall working? Did you actually click the ads or what ? I never for one thing click any ads on any site! You never know what it is you're going to get ahold of. Plus my pop blocker is always on too!
I didn't click any of the ads (nor do I ever click on ads). Google Chrome gave me a warning message before entering the site about something with malware coming from ads.ign.com. I use Avast, spyware doctor (Google edition), and Windows Firewall.
I don't believe so this time. I ran a quick scan with Spyware doctor before entering the site and it found nothing, i visit a few pages of the site and exit Google chrome and do a quick scan and it finds 7 infections (Trojans, key logger, etc). I repeated that and once again its finds about 8 infections. Its coming from IGN ads.