It occurs to me that the timing is very apt. As we head towards the end of the first month of 2011, sales teams will be frantically ensuring they are hitting their targets. It is an unfortunate situation but in such times due-diligence can be easily sidelined in the frantic dash to secure revenue for those last closing days of the month. So, if you’re seeing any new accounts suddenly appearing trying to force their way past your normally thorough screening process… be careful.

Here’s what they have to say about the mater:
“Kaspersky Lab acknowledges a false positive returned by its products for a number of Internet resources with Google contextual advertising.

An incorrect signature was added to the company’s antivirus databases on 25 January at 07:00 Moscow time (GMT+3). As a result, Kaspersky Lab products erroneously blocked some legitimate websites containing the link on script http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js, which is used in the contextual advertising system Google AdSense. When users visited an affected web resource, a message was displayed stating that the page contained the malicious program Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar.”

Links:
http://support.kaspersky.com/kis2010/error?qid=208281219
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Says-Google-Spreads-Malware-but-Trojan-JS-Redirector-ar-Is-a-False-Positive-133118.shtml