Good work, Douglas!

Best,

Jerry Daniels

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On Apr 7, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, the subject got your attention. (or perhaps it just put this straight 
> into your spam or trash?)
> 
> Honest, it's not quite what you think! It is quite a long story, but it DOES 
> have something to do with using RunRev - please bear with me.
> 
> Britain's biggest cable network supplier VirginMedia had a little problem 
> last weekend, but they don't want anyone to know.
> 
> Last Friday (2nd April) I discovered their website (virginmedia.com) was 
> littered in scripts that would start a malware trojan download on to users 
> computers.
> I put in a report through their "security" system and expected it to be 
> looked into quite quickly.
> Then, 5 hours later, as nothing at all had happened on site and users were 
> presumably still getting infected I put a 2nd report.
> Then the next morning a 3rd report.
> Finally, I started informing the anti-virus companies in the hope that they 
> would force Virgin into action.
> 
> I managed to get the warning systems for the Firefox and Safari browsers 
> which use Google info for blocking bad sites to block parts of the site after 
> getting Google to scan the site.
> See the Google report at 
> http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?tpl=safari&site=help.virginmedia.com&hl=en-us
> - out of the pages scanned, 18 had bad scripts!
> I then sent a 4th report to virgin "security" stating that I had to go to the 
> community due to their inaction.
> A few hours later, "closed for maintenance" notices started to go up on large 
> bits of the site.
> 
> It took virgin "security" 5 days to reply to my reports! (After the site has 
> now been cleaned and the bad pages rewritten.)
> I am now in the process of discussing security with the "security" team. - 
> possibly lucrative?
> 
> Obviously, VirginMedia do not use any form of auditing software on their 
> website or they would have known that the infected pages had a different 
> checksum than the last time they were checked.
> 
> I realise that there must be some form of proper auditing software available 
> for exactly this purpose.
> There are obviously complexities involved to allow for authorised editing, 
> adverts etc., but the basic framework would be fairly simple wouldn't it?
> I don't want to start working on this if it has already been done a thousand 
> times already!
> 
> Hence the reason for this post - has anyone already done a similar app that 
> you know of?
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ps. McAfee were rubbish, even having reported this to them and the fact that 
> their anti virus/malware system allowed the malware/trojan to infect PC's. I 
> sent them the URLs of infected pages, signed up as a"SiteAdvisor" and 
> reported the site.
> They STILL reported the site as safe all the way through on their 
> siteadvisor.com!
> 
> 
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