If you're a Spotify user you need to be aware that, your computer might be at vulnerable from the recent infected bugs.
Spotify users have been warned to up their security protection after an investigation found that the music streaming service could be putting their devices at risk.
A user report on the company's online forum found that running Spotify Free on your desktop could open up your browser to potentially damaging malware.
Spotify users found that running the free version of Spotify, which plays an advert every few songs, would open up a range malicious websites on their default browser without asking for permission.
Several major browsers appear to be affected by the flaw, including Chrome, Safari and Ubuntu, users complained online, suggesting that the issue is to do with the adverts rather than Spotify itself.
Spotify says that it is currently looking into the complaints, but there does not appear to be any fix yet.
There's no suggestion at the moment that any of the paid-for versions of Spotify are affected, with users of the £15 a month Spotify Premium blocked from seeing adverts when using the service.
The news comes shortly after Spotify was blasted after it recently started to sell data on its users for targeted advertising.
Since August, everything from your age and gender, to the tracks and music genres you enjoy on your way to work has been made available to a swathe of third-party companies.
Advertisers will have access to information on the 70 million people that currently use Spotify's ad-supported streaming service.
Advertisers can monitor your song picks, gender and age demographic and use these information points to provide more accurate matches for the products they want to sell you.
The resulting 15 and 30 second audio adverts will be nothing new to those on Spotify's free tier but they might now be more relevant to your interests and tastes.
Spotify dubbed the new addition to its service 'programmatic buying'.
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