The Dark Corners of the Web

Posted on October 7, 2007
Filed Under Digital Software

We all know there is bad ware on the internet. But this is getting to be a problem.

It’s getting harder and harder to know who to trust on the World Wide Web the bad guys are finding new ways to place their malicious software on our computers. These are often times by compromising Web sites that we trust.

With the help of one of its sponsor companies, Google and StopBadware maintains a list of 200,000 Web sites that are known to be associated with malicious downloads. These are the sites we nuke in the case of computer issues like in terminator

Delivering malicious software on legitimate sites has been a disturbing trend over the past year,

We as Web surfers know that visiting gambling or pornographic sites could harm your computers, but lately attack code can be downloaded from almost anywhere. I had one down load from an anti-virus site.

The way cell phone communicate a person’s techno-awareness to the others, the use of cell phones, a digital cameras or any type of laptop computers and scanners printers tells about a persons knowledge of the world today.

StopBadware has seen this happening with Web advertising networks, which can easily be subverted by attackers to serve up maliciously encoded scripts and images.

eBay is looking into ways of curbing a similar problem. The online auction giant allows users to put their own images and HTML code on its site, but sometimes this leads to “bad code”. Under the proposed system, eBay power sellers with good security ratings would be given more free rein on the types of features they could add to their stores.

Another growing source of concern is social networking.

Users should also be wary of fake accounts, we all know there is no such thing as a fake account, wink, only legit ones :), set up on legitimate social networking sites, which are often designed with one thing in mind: to lure unsuspecting users to malicious Web sites.

So with all this badware, is the Internet a more dangerous place to be? We just need to protect our selves and need some thing to seek and destroy the bad.

Off with their heads

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