Gaming, Celebrity URLs: Riskiest Web Sites for Spyware, Drive-by downloads

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02-26-2006, 12:16 PM, (This post was last modified: 02-26-2006, 12:18 PM by mandy.)

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Gaming, Celebrity URLs: Riskiest Web Sites for Spyware, Drive-by downloads

Quote:These Web sites are significantly more likely to host spyware and launch "drive-by downloads," the term for the hacker practice of using browser or Windows vulnerabilities to silently install software...

"Our data shows that the most high-risk category is 'games,'" said the report. "Another is celebrity, for which over one in seven executables are infected with spyware."...

One in five of gaming site hosted spyware, said Levy and Gribble, the highest percentage of any neighborhood. Music placed second on the shame list, with 11.4 percent of domains infected (about one in nine)...

full article: http://informationweek.com/news/showArti...=180207761

related topic: The Web's Download Disasters: Spyware Filled Download Sites http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...191.0.html

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