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davidh
May 7th, 2008, 07:03 PM
Web Attack Worm Infecting Hapless Sites

Erik Larkin Wed May 7, 4:42 PM ET

The Internet Storm Center, which tracks online threats, warns today that a worm is infecting vulnerable Web sites with a database attack. Though relatively small by Web attack standards with about 4,000 reported infected sites, the assault adds invisible code to a site that can force visitors to download malware onto their PC. Bad PR, to say the least.
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IMPORTANT: DO NOT visit the domain named in the following test, or any sites that show up on a Web search as having this domain listed in their pages' code (including cached pages). Doing so could infect your PC with malware.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080507/tc_pcworld/145609;_ylt=Aub20p91cqSyECZVHPcFZTgE1vAI

Click the link to read actual example. The link is safe to click, just don't click the mentioned link on Yahoo/PCWorld. I did not paste it here, to avoid false positive, etc.

David H.