Perry is quite right. Some of this malware can do some very nasty things to your PC - like make it a repository for child porn.
There's a very interesting paper by Provos too.. http://www.usenix.org/event/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf The Ghost in the Browser - An analysis of web based malware srs > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Perry E. Metzger > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [silk] Deccan Herald Site running malware ? > > > "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]
