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
>> 
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