9500 new infected web pages - every day

**Glaswegian** · 06-01-2007, 02:23 PM

Sophos has revealed the most prevalent malware threats causing problems for computer users around the world during May 2007.

The figures compiled by Sophos's global network of monitoring stations show that infected web pages continue to pose a threat, affecting official government websites as well as other legitimate pages. On average this month, Sophos uncovered 9,500 new infected web pages daily - an increase of more than 1000 every day when compared to April. In total, 304,000 web pages hosting malicious code were identified in May.

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/ne...?_log_from=rss

**1 g0t 0wn3d** · 06-01-2007, 02:26 PM

Well i hope i have not visited any of them. =)

forhockey · 06-03-2007, 12:40 AM

html pages only pose a threat of 65.5% lol... Next is Java scripts, which doesn't surprise me, but is only 6.9%

06-01-2007, 02:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
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06-01-2007, 02:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
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06-03-2007, 12:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
forhockey Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,948 OS: Windows 7 Ultimate	Re: 9500 new infected web pages - every day html pages only pose a threat of 65.5% lol... Next is Java scripts, which doesn't surprise me, but is only 6.9% __________________ Proud Member of ASAP Proud Member of UNITE Keep this forum alive - if you've been helped at this forum, please do consider a donation. Thank you for your support. Donation link for Tech Support Forum