Another site hacked...

Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.

 

So I guess the answer is no to the first question and at least possibly to the second ?

 

I wonder why they used this name? Are they supposed to come apart?

 

From a post by lusher back in August:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=76&threadid=2088998&enterthread=y

In the same forum above, mechBgon identifies the malware to include Storm worm.

This is a simple drive-by exploit using iframe. Anyone with basic execution protection was protected, if the exploit indeed was able to get by the browser.

With Deep Freeze, anything installed on a Frozen Partition is removed on a re-boot.

Those 'black hats' look for vulnerabilities in servers. I doubt they are particular about what kind of site is is. Remember the Dolphins Super Bowl incident, for example. It used an iframe to trigger the exploit. Another similar exploit that comes to mind was the Support Page of BellSouth.com

From other Avast forum posts:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30120.0

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30118.0

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rich

 

Sure I have. I invented them.

 

That's funny if true... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1117699&postcount=22

P.S.-Your PM-box is full

 

Read about additional sports-websites being exploited. http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-NHL-Website-Hacked-71098.shtml

 

Standard procedure for popups is to close the window with CTRL+ F4, or click on the X at the top of the window

Hopefully, no one who frequents Wilders is vulnerable to this type of remote code execution (aka 'drive-by download').


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rich