By sinha on 19, June, 2008 | Channel: Digital India

Google thinks DeccanHerald is an attack site

Search for deccanherald.com in Google and you get a warning “The site may harm your computer”

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Google has it’s own reasons for tagging Deccanherald as a “suspicious’ site:

  • Of the 41 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 06/18/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 06/18/2008.
  • Malicious software includes 2 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new processes on the target machine.
  • Malicious software is hosted on 5 domain(s), including advabnr.com, adsitelo.com, bigadnet.com.
  • 3 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including advabnr.com, domaincld.com, bigadnet.com. [more]

Interesting!

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    4 Responses to Google thinks DeccanHerald is an attack site

    1. Sachin says:
      June 19, 2008 at 11:27 AM

      Serves Deccan Herald right. Have you seen the number of Popup’s when you try to open the site?

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    2. Ashish says:
      June 19, 2008 at 11:30 AM

      and the download time? I think it’s horrible!

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    3. niraj says:
      June 19, 2008 at 4:41 PM

      Hi Ashish

      Some one hacked DeccanHerald site. This one also happened with one of our client Wockhardt hospital. Some one inserted malicious javascript code into the pages.

      For more information you can check here stopbadware.org :)

      Reply
    4. shivaas says:
      June 19, 2008 at 7:46 PM

      You mean to say that the deccan heral guys have no idea that their site is hacked ? And I assume that it must have been hacked quite a few days back, unless google scans it everyday right ?

      Reply