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Most AV software is USELESS against SCRAPER Sites
Hi all
We seem to get more and more bogged down with finding the best AV software for preventing Viruses / worms / trojans etc etc.
These are largely old hat now -- what most of this software DOESN'T protect you against (and its difficult to see how to devise good protection for this type of attack) is clicking on to sites that you've been directed to via SCRAPER SITES which have already adjusted the search order say in Google putting Rogue sites at the top of the search list.
These are automated sites that continually scan pages in say News sites to scrape info from these that keep their pages at the top of a google search. Now on a google search most people tend to click on sites at the start of the search so a lot of the Scraper sites have ensured that the rogue sites are at the top of the search and the "Victim" is directed to a rogue site with "fly by" or other malware stuff present.
You need to be careful now in just using things like google without realizing what can happen.
Most AV software is currently 100% (in fact 150%) USELESS against this type of attack.
I wish some of the AV companies were even as HALF as good as some of the scammers.
I'm using MS Forefront Client security which has a decent real time protection but most of the typical stuff people have on their machines doesn't do real time protection. This these days is a MUST if you use any search engine and then visit a site you don't know and trust COMPLETELY.
Cheers
jimbo