Drive-By Infections… The Innocent Suffer… The Guilty Rejoyce.

For quite some time now, hackers have been infecting web sites with malicious code by using SQL injection and iframe injection attacks. This operation is usually performed at, or right before the times when traffic is historically at a high for the day, thereby infecting the greatest number of visitors.

Unfortunately, you do not have to do anything particularly dumb to become infected.  If you navigate to one of these infected sites you will get an infection from embedded malware scripts.  This is commonly referred to as a “drive-by” infection.

I say you don’t have to do anything dumb because the sites I am discussing here aren’t porn sites, or ‘warz and serialz” sites…going to those sites would definitely qualify as dumb. No, they are often  some of the most popular and well known sites on the net… even news, weather, and public information sites

I provide Delaware Network Support all over the state and the surrounding areas. When you have this kind of business, you run into all kinds of infections.  Sometimes the users know they are infected, but most times I only find the infection when looking for reasons for poor performance or odd happenings.

This is where a really good anti-malware program comes in,   AVG 8, for instance, installs a component called “link Scanner” that blocks infected websites and checks links on search engines for these threats.

I suggest you check it our, and sooner than later.  Who knows… your favorite site may be next to fall to the black hats.

Good Luck and Good Networking

From way down in the trenches… Tom

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