Thanks Ric .. good man. And one must say that sure, the definitionand effect of
"malicious software" will vary enormously. Howeverit's disappointing that
simple visits to more than 30% of Gumtree'spages are, apparently, found to
"result in malicious software beingdownloaded and installed without user
consent." Seems somewhatover-the-top for a popular and trusted Australian
consumer website.
Cheers,Stephen
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:59:30 -0700
From: r...@vitendo.ca
To: stephenloos...@outlook.com; l...@anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] Gumtree
Hi SL,
I do not use Chrome, but I was interested in finding a so-called
"driveby malware tool"
from google. Here it is, parameterised for the Gumtree site:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.gumtree.com.au/
It appears that third party sites are to blame, i.e.
Of the 31906 pages we tested on the site over
the past 90 days, 9809 page(s) resulted in malicious
software being downloaded and installed without user
consent. The last time Google visited this site was on
2014-06-28, and the last time suspicious content was found
on this site was on 2014-06-28.
Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s),
including zamcheck.org/,
indolocker.com/.
There you have it.
cheers
rickw
Stephen Loosley wrote:
Doing an ad search of Gumtree, using Crome, doesanybody else currently
get this site-wide message?
The Website Ahead Contains Malware!
Google Chrome has blocked access to www.gumtree.com.au for now.
Even if you have visited this website safely in the past, visiting it now is
very likely to infect your computer with malware
Malware is malicious software that causes things like identity theft, financial
loss, and permanent file deletion ...
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Cheers,
Stephen
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