"Sumant Srivathsan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm no expert, but sometimes badly written code and over-abundant > advertising can both make your page seem suspicious.
No, that's not an issue. > Also, it's quite common for Google to throw up false positives. No, Niels Provos and his colleagues are very good about this. They are not throwing up significant numbers of false positives. There are literally hundreds of thousands of web sites, many of them popular sites run by normal companies, that are now being used as "drive-by" malware distribution centers. Read Niels' paper on the subject. That's the reason the vast majority of windows machines are infected. > If you have faith in your antivirus/spyware detection software, you could > risk clicking on the link. You should not have such faith. That won't help very much these days. The AV software won't be able to do anything once you have a modern root kit installed. Only re-installing your OS will work at that point. As I said, the overwhelming majority of Windows machines worldwide are infected. If you want safety: 0) Re-install your machine from scratch. 1) Run Firefox. NEVER run Internet Explorer, except to operate Windows Update. 2) Run the Firefox NoScript extension, and turn on javascript only where it is actually necessary. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
