9500 malicious websites discovered a day

Message Share Topic Printable Version Google Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Windows Live Yahoo Bookmarks reddit Facebook MySpace Newsvine Furl Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic

   Sophos is finding on avereage, 9500 websites a day who's intent is to infect your computer with a virus. Most of these attacks are from China. There are currently over 450,000 web sites with malicious code. Check out the whole story here: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32290/108/

Author	Message Share Topic Printable Version Google Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Windows Live Yahoo Bookmarks reddit Facebook MySpace Newsvine Furl Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic
woodio Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: Oct/27/2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 476	Quote Reply Topic: 9500 malicious websites discovered a day Posted: Jun/06/2007 at 4:56pm
	Sophos is finding on avereage, 9500 websites a day who's intent is to infect your computer with a virus. Most of these attacks are from China. There are currently over 450,000 web sites with malicious code. Check out the whole story here: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32290/108/

arwendt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: Oct/26/2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 1270	Quote Reply Posted: Jul/11/2007 at 2:38pm
	Sorry for the late reply but does anyone know why most of these attacks would come form China? What could any one country have to gain by being such a source of trouble on the internet?
	The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass - More at my Words of Freedom website.

arwendt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: Oct/26/2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 1270	Quote Reply Posted: Jul/11/2007 at 2:48pm
	Oh my gosh! After a few minutes of research i see that according to Sophos this problem has skyrocketed over the last month. As of July 2 the estimated daily number of malicious web sites going up is 30,000 per day. It appears that hackers are turning their efforts away from e-mail and using simple web pages to defraud or compromise the security of their visitors. The most shocking thing I read was that 80% of these 30,000 malicious sites were preexisting sites that were hacked. Source: informationweek.com
	The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass - More at my Words of Freedom website.

John Beagle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: Oct/24/2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 906	Quote Reply Posted: Jul/11/2007 at 11:15pm
	Thank god we have the Baracuda Firewall for internet email. We get hundreds of potentially harmful attacks per hour here at Tech Army Headquarters. The Baracuda virtually knocks out all incoming viruses. We tried other anti-virus anti-spam solutions, but there allowed allot of crap thru. Not good. We even had an infection on one workstation.
	23 years in the Computer Industry. Segments: Computer Service and Computer Rentals.

Bill Rogers Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: Mar/23/2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 150	Quote Reply Posted: Jul/12/2007 at 9:33am
	Curious, that they mostly come from China. I suppose the most populous country in the world has to fill a significant internet demographic, even more so as they catch up with Western technology.

Bill Rogers Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: Mar/23/2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 150	Quote Reply Posted: Jul/12/2007 at 9:53am
	According to this article from PCWorld.com, sites like these are generated in a matter of a couple seconds.