One Million Sites Infected With Malware In Q2

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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Of course you have.

[AnonymousClown]

Web anti malware firm Dasient has published data claiming that more than 1 million Web sites were compromised in the second quarter, 2010 - a sharp increase.

*In Sean Connery's James Bond voice* Of course they have.

*domains* infected? What?

[Kaz Kylheku]

A domain is a node in the DNS namespace. How does that get infected?

If a web server hosts 20 domains, and is infected, does that count as 20 infections?

"Web site", "domain" and "host" are not interchangeable.

Um yeah..

[DrgnDancer]

The only Malware we were infected by in Q2 was McAfee. It decided a few critical systems files were viruses and shut us down for hours. Stupid Malware creators.

Less and less active...

[Darkness404]

It seems like in reality virus/adware/spyware infections are down to very, very low levels.

It used to be in the late 90s to early-to-mid 2000s there would be people left and right with adware that popped up stuff and computers would grind to a halt. Today, I'm not seeing that on anyone's computer that I've done tech support for. I have seen a bunch of systems grind to a halt due to Norton/McAfee, but none caused by viruses/spyware/adware/etc. The only thing I can think of is that IE7 and beyond stepped up security enough to make a major impact.

So even though "threat analyzers" pull up scary numbers, I'm not seeing the results in the wild.

Re:Less and less active...

[HungryHobo]

it just means the malware authors have grown up and want a paycheck.
It used to be that half the viruses were showy things written by amatures who wanted to fuck around.
most of the rest were trying to cash in on ad revenue from popups.

Now there's less money in popups(most of the big ad providers don't like being associated with malware) so the malware just sits quietly trying to steal your credit card number.
The more stealthy the more successful.

No wonder

[Intron]

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.