Hi Blog and All,
To me malware, Viruses, adware, root-kits, worms, Trojans Horses, and crimeware are a missuses of talent. They are also types of malware, and are created by programmers to do some malicious things. What ever happened to the “With great power comes great responsibility” ethic among programmers. The black hatters (Hackers) are now messing with the white Hats(IT Professionals). There is no reason to fight, and why blacklist websites that are owned by honest companies? They will just go back online.
Google has been a great help by blacklisting websites with malware, and also warning the visitors as they are about to enter an infected area of the web. This july I had the ‘pleasure’ of repairing an older website that I had built in Early 2007. It was actually not that difficult to repair the damage, but the malware did created damage. Only 1 webpage had been changed, but it actually corrupted an image! The type of person that would want to go around screwing with other people’s property(Owner of websites) on the web is a stupid nuisance InMyHumbleHonestOpionion. The web is the place where many conduct business, and it is something that people are going to protect.
When someone’s personal computer is hacked it is usually something they detect, remove, and then defend against. When you mess with someone’s business they will do so with an iron fist. I for one am willing to fight in that manner for my clients and their data/integrity. This means I will add Firewalls, use strict code, and try my best to protect their investments/assets.
Over 100,000 webpages were hacked and infected with malware (Summer of 2010). Those emails that are spam, those bad cookies or galleta malas (data-miners), and malware injections, Cross-Site Server Scripting, are all examples of shady web services.
Microsoft Sever (specifically) is no stranger to these sort of outbreaks either.
When websites are victim to attacks by bad programs it allows as many visitors that go to a website to be victims as well. So websites that get the most traffic are going to be targeted much more. This is a very good tactic, but I believe those are going to be websites that are the most protected in the future. So then we have a trickle effect of attacks that goes down the popularity pyramid mixed with a websites ability to defend itself.
Even though these attacks seem to be predator/prey style, taking out the weak. It cannot go on for very long because this is the business world. The ability to do these attacks will not survive. Just like Windows will always have malicious software removal toolkit updates, webmasters/programmers will always be able to adapt to defending these efforts..
Thanks for the Read ; Just my Bits,
Rob