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Dear Publisher,

A few days ago www.media-servers.net fell victim to an attack. A site that contained a single HTML file, hosted by GoDaddy until yesterday, was used by the attacker to trigger an automated software install from superkahn.ru

Google had rightfully listed media-servers.net as a reported attack site, but unrightfully added ad.media-servers.net and my.media-servers.net to its block list. As a result users of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers trying to access their control panel and/or view ads were presented with a false message claiming that ad.media-servers.net is reported as a attack site.

We were immediately notified of the breach and reacted by changing hosting services, altering the DNS and notifying Google of their mistake. After several nerve racking hours the update was made by Google. After analyzing yesterdays stats we see an outcome with an average 25% loss in revenue across the board, which roughly reflects the 2 browsers’ market share.

We will be taking steps to compensate all of our active publishers by adding the missing 25% to your November 12th 2009 earnings. Although this will not show on your revenue report, it will be added to payment.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused and want to thank all of you that helped to notify us of the issue.

Best Regards,