How to Get Rid of Dangerous Malware - Part I, "Exploit Webattacker"

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By Kai Yee
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This poor guy is slowly coming to the realization his computer has been infected!

This latest web virus news probably ranks up there as among the more slimy activities on the internet! It turns out that the most active virus over the internet is one called "Exploit Webattacker". This virus is believed to have been developed by a group of Russian hackers who sell it to wannabee badguys for $300 with $25 for upgrades, price includes technical support! This virus strain is no joke! It hides in the iframe of a website. (Iframes or Inline Frame is an HTML element which makes it possible to embed an HTML document within another HTML document. Webmasters sometimes use this technology to embed ads on a wepage. Most webmasters don't even know their websites have been tampered in this way). When an unsuspecting users browses to the infected site, the virus scans for a vulnerability in the host computer called an "exploit" where it will proceed to do various bad things such as download passwords, use your computer as a hub for spam mail, and generally wreak havoc on your operating system.

This situation has gotten so serious that Google is offering a free website, "Google Safebrowsing" to test for websites for malware. (for url look below in the "Resources" section)

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Install a good internet security software
Upgrade all your security patches to your operating system especially for Windows users
Upgrade your Web Browser

Step 1

Here is the dreaded Google Safebrowsing alert. This means you step on an internet landmine!

Google's safebrowsing website, is a good starting point because it's free and Google has a vested interest in preventing malacious, malware from perpetuating over the internet. See below for the web address for Google Safebrowsing site. To test a suspected website, you just change the "site=xyz" to the suspected url. This site offers a report that tells you the particular strain of the virus, a pretty comprehensive history of infected pages and how the site was infected.
Step 2

For a more proactive approach, check out software such as AVG. AVG has a free and a annual subscription version. The free version of AVG can catch most suspicious html codes on a websites. The paid professional version offers real-time link scanning so that it prevents the user from even entering a dangerous site!
Step 3

If you are so unfortunate to have been infected, my deepest sympathy go to you. You should get an antivirus software post-haste! Most antivirus software have something called a "Virus Vault" which quarantines the virus to a secluded place on your computer where it will do no harm. The more gratifying thing to do is to simply hit the delete key so you can send the offending malware to internet Hades where it belongs!

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Bradmasterson said

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on 6/21/2009 Oh, sorry, jaym24in, went on vacation for a while. Did you get your question answered? If not can you drop me a PM.

jaym24in said

on 4/9/2009 hi, I am finding the issue of malware, on the site hosted. How to remove it, any advice ?

on 3/8/2009 Tansain have your friend send me an email. He can send it through eHow. I will walk him through the step-by-step procedure that I use. I will also post additional articles to help.

tansain said

on 2/20/2009 my friend is a web develpor having website www.thebahawalpur.com infected with "Exploit WebAttaker" what should he do to remove virus from server where the site is hosted???