Agreed, Robert. I believe many issues are likely the ads and/or comments.
Glen Roberts On Jul 1, 2012, at 19:28, Arch Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > I check a known bad site I came across which was due to ads, and wondered the > same thing about CNET. > > It could also be from comments people have left that they don't filter. > Either way its obvious that its there :-) > > -- > > Thank you, > > Robert Miller > http://www.armoredpackets.com > > Twitter: @arch3angel > > On 6/20/12 11:20 AM, Mike Patterson wrote: >> On 12-06-20 8:03 AM, Glen Roberts wrote: >>> This morning while researching Google’s five-year anniversary of providing >>> malware protection, I found evidence that CNET is serving up malware to its >>> site visitors to the tune of 151 exploits, 64 trojans and 22 bots. The >>> malicious software is hosted on internet-safeness.ru and publictivity.com >>> appears to be an intermediary for distributing malware to site visitors. >>> >>> I have notified CNET of the problem but it’s pretty concerning that another >>> CBS property is making the news again for being insecure. It was only a few >>> days ago that the Last.fm password hashes that were dumped made the news. >>> >>> Here is the link you can use to take advantage of Google’s insight into >>> sites serving malware: >>> http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=cnet.com. Just replace the >>> parameter with the site you want to inspect. I recommend you check out the >>> sites you manage and visit using Google’s tool. >>> >>> I've posted a screenshot here: >>> http://www.internetgeneral.com/cnet-serving-malware/ >> One might be inclined to wonder, as I did, if it's CNET itself serving >> up the malware, or an ad network that's been popped. >> >> Mike >> > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
