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Evil all over the web

Posted February 18th, 2008 by peter

Google is saying that 1 in 1,000 web pages is infected by malicious software.

Over the last year Google has been suing its crawling software to search for malicious pages that try to attack their visitors. They found over 3 million of them. Called "drive-by downloads" by security experts, they have infected the websites of Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth" movie and MySpace profiles.In the past, web users going to sleazier parts of the web could expect this problem. But now any website could be affected. Google attempts to identify them and lists the possibility of malicious in their results pages.

How can you avoid downloading from these sites?
Turn automatic updates on

and be careful out there

We @ web one have extremely tight security resources on our servers, and regularly check them (our servers) just to make sure they are not compromised. Because we only host our client websites and no others, it is unlikely they will ever be affected, although we see thousands of attempts every day of hackers trying to break in.