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5 Million Domains Serving Malware Via Network Solutions

Posted by Soulskill on from the going-for-the-gusto dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A compromised widget provided by Network Solutions was serving malware on otherwise legitimate websites. But, as bad as this discovery was, it was overshadowed a couple of days later by another revelation: the widget is automatically included on every 'parked domain' by Network Solutions! Searches on Google and Yahoo! revealed 500,000 and 5,000,000 domains affected and serving malware, respectively. A manual check of some 200 parked domains on the list showed that all of them were provided with the malware-serving widget." The researchers who uncovered this issue alerted Network Solutions, and the widget was taken down a few hours later.

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  1. Network Solutions by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    used to be the place to go for domains.

    Now they are completely redundant.

    1. Re:Network Solutions by sarysa · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm not surprised by TFA, but I'm not in the know when it comes to which domain parkers are "legitimate" and which aren't. Regardless of their status, accidentally hitting a parked domain on a Windows box (i.e. my work PC) has been a bit of a gut-wrenching experience for a number of years now...

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      Charisma is the measure of someone's ability to lie with a straight face.
  2. I saw the ads by HangingChad · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw a couple of those ads, which was pretty funny to suddenly see a strange file tree on my Linux box. It was pretty scary. For a minute I thought my PC had been infected with Windows.

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    That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
  3. Re:Shrugged off, but root cause needs regulation by rotide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Once you start blocking "for the good of x" someone will come along and complain that "y" should be on that list too or yet another person will come along and claim that it is unfair that their site "x" was blocked. Staying neutral and allowing anything to be displayed as long as it is spider-able keeps them free of censoring/uncensoring and/or policing. Simply getting addons to your favorite browser and/or using a DNS that filters the way you like it are the best solutions.