14 DAY TRIAL // Yeah, that's right! Your favorite website! Whatever that might be?a blog, some forum, a gallery ?it can get you infected with a nasty virus. It's not that all the web designers out there are trying to get people's machines tainted with viruses, no, don't even think that! It's something else - hackers know that people are aware of the fact that they could get viruses form porn sites or gambling pages, so they're pulling the old switcheroo?
They still want to get their viruses on as many machines as possible, but they're just changing the way they do it. I've read a very good report about trends in badware from the StopBadware website, and here is what their security experts have to say:
"Now, rather than simply driving internet users to their own webpages that host drive-by downloads, attackers take advantage of the traffic and goodwill already built by other, innocent sites and silently direct that traffic to their own pages. Malicious hackers embed code in the sites they compromise that can invisibly open windows to other, dangerous webpages. Visitors to the compromised sites are generally not even aware that their browser has also loaded a malicious webpage, or that their computer has downloaded anything."
Some people think that their site is safe because it doesn't get too much traffic, but the truth is nowadays, nobody's safe anymore. To them (the evil hackers) - hacking a lot of smaller sites is just the same as hacking a few big ones. It's just as efficient - so you never know where you could get a virus from, nowadays. This is why my peers and I always keep yapping about how important it is to have security solutions deployed on your machine. You don't even have to pay to stay safe - there is a lot of free security software out there!