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One Million Sites Infected With Malware In Q2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the show-me-the-pinkee dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "More than one million Web domains were infected with malicious code in the second quarter of 2010 — around one percent of all active Web domains, according to new data. The number of infected domains was extrapolated from data gained through a sample scan of what Dasient describes as 'millions of Web sites,' as well as from customer deployments. It suggests that compromises of Web sites are on the rise, as attackers look to push out malicious programs through so-called drive by download attacks."

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  1. Re:Less and less active... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If the site serves up an infected ad, the site is infected. Sounds fair to me; if I go to the site, will my computer be attacked? I really don't care if the attack stems from an embedded ad hosted on another server.

  2. No wonder by Intron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's what I see when I go to the linked article:

    "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page [Install Missing Plugins]"

    The web is no longer a provider of linked information. It is a distributed application, portions of which want to run on my PC.

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  3. Re:Um yeah.. by mcgrew · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, if it had been Linux that told him it was a trojan Linux would have been wrong, because it was his own program. But since Microsoft really owns all Windows computers (ragardless of who paid for them) Windows was right. Keep your nasty programs off of Bill's computer! You can only run what Bill allows you to run.

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