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[News] [Rival] If You Use Windows, Avoid 66,000+ Dangerous Web Sites and Ads

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] If You Use Windows, Avoid 66,000+ Dangerous Web Sites and Ads
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:16:51 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Infected websites list tops 66,000

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| The method reminded him of a particularly widespread wibbling infection back 
| in February named for the Superbowl due to its timing, so he investigated a 
| bit. Indeed, he found that the same malicious websites that were used then as 
| redirection targets are again implicated.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/12/infected-websites-list-tops-66

It's like Russian roulette. Just make sure you're never redirected to one among
66,000+ (e.g. via ads; see news below). Try to teach and explain this to
someone who never used the Internet before.

DoubleClick caught supplying malware-tainted ads

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| DoubleClick, the massive internet advertising network that recently agreed to 
| be bought by Google, has been caught serving rogue ads designed to trick 
| users into buying unneeded software, according to an article on eWeek.  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

Another reason to use Linux. Don't even visit IndiaTimes or check your bank
account in the Bank of India. Virtually any site can attack Windows.


Related:

IndiaTimes website 'attacks visitors'

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| Visitors to the IndiaTimes website are being bombarded by malware, some of 
| which appear to target previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, a 
| security researcher warns.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| She said most pages on the IndiaTimes site are clean. Those that are 
| infected, however, contain a potent cocktail of downloader and dropper 
| Trojans and other binaries. They contain a script that points to remote 
| sites, some of which link to still other sites. The malicious files exploit 
| multiple vulnerabilities, and some appear to be previously unknown flaws in 
| Windows, according to Landesman, who used to be a security researcher for 
| Microsoft.      
| 
| A Microsoft spokesman said he was looking in to the report.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/10/india_times_under_attack/


How the Online Trust Model is Broken - The Bank of India.com attack

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| Manually entering the addresses into a browser will load some of them, 
| suggesting that those upstream malware sources are active (others have 
| already been shut down).  
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http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/08/31/265/How_the_Online_Trust_Model_is_Broken_-_The_Bank_of_India.com_attack

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