Three Million Web Pages with Malicious "Drive-By" Downloads
March 4, 2008 Leave a comment
These suck.
As described by Windows ITPro Magazine, a "Drive By" download is:
a situation in which a computer becomes infected with some sort of malware when its user simply visits a Web page. Such infections typically take advantage of vulnerabilities in browsers, browser components (typically add-ons), and OSs.
This means you can get infected by simply visiting the page, or via a pop-up redirect from a malicious page. A team
The key points: "vulnerabilities in browsers, browser components and OSs". Legitimate software companies and application developers will issue security patches for detected vulnerabilities to ensure their code is secure.
Patch your systems, people. There is no excuse except to maintain a safe computing environment.
Windows ITPro: "3 Million Malicious Web Pages Plague the Internet".