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July 25, 2008

MSY fails Google's malware test

May we suggest that you don't visit the site of the popular hardware supplier MSY without checking it first with the Google malware tool? It looks like somebody has added some poisonous links to their site, and it's taking them quite a while to wake up to the tampering:

What is the current listing status for www.msy.com.au/?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 77 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 33 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 07/23/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 07/16/2008.

Malicious software includes 1 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new processes on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 8 domain(s), including gitporg.com, butdrv.com, bnsdrv.com.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including butdrv.com, gitporg.com.

We suspect this will have led to quite a spike in the number of infected PCs in Melbourne. We do hope GTO_Pontiac hasn't got caught by this one. He's constantly looking at MSY to do the numbers for his monthly update to our Workhorse PC specs in the Forum.

Posted by cw at July 25, 2008 01:07 PM

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