Google Partially Dangerous According to Google

Google's adsense can host malware too. I made the below post just today in the 'networking and security' forum.
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Just came across this and it justifies why I block ads and use noscript and don't allow most google scripts, I allow only what is needed for youtube to function.

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"We've gone through all our pages and there aren't any problems on our end. However, what appears was happening is that a 3rd-party ad-network through Google AdSense was compromised and sending out malicious ads that were exploiting that vulnerability in Adobe Flash."
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I actually use google maps and google news too so also allow those urls through.
 
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