Any of you webmasters ever have to deal with Malware?

[Baz]

On my business website - it was infected recently with Malware.

I maintain the site myself with Front Page and WSFTP.

I ended up doing a scan with MalwareBytes and Avast on all my drives, wiped out the publish web...then reloaded it from my cleansed drive.

It wasn't a real big deal, luckily everything went smooth. I did find some infections on my drive and resolved them.

Now waiting for Google to take off their malicious warning page for my site.

I never did find out where the Malware was...although I did find the code and the pages it was on. Could it have been imbedded in an image?

I'm no expert by any means...


EDIT: I just checked and no more warning from Google! Yah!

[stomachmonkey]

First question to ask is how long has the site been running in the same place?

I assume it's a shared hosting deal, many sites on the same box.

Depending on who the company is they my not be maintaing security patches or have allowed leakage between user accounts.

A coupla few years back there was an exploit running around that grabbed saved FTP login info from peoples boxes.

One of my clients got hit and they placed malicious code on a dozen of his product sites.

Really robust hosting has gotten really cheap these days.

I'm a fan of running Virtual Machines, linode.com is a reasonable place to run your site from.

The advantage is you generally have a dedicated IP and are significantly less likely to get f'd by the antics of another customer like on a shared box.

Front page? Sorry but ughhh.

It may be time to evaluate what you have and how you are doing it and bring it into the 21st century.

As far as what the malware was, you reference an image. One of the most common false flags thrown by browsers has to do with https, when you have links from a non secure asset under a secure URL browsers will pitch a fit.

Very common problem.

[hardflex]

Let me ask this question along those lines. My Google Chrome has gotten very slow with lots of delay loading pages, slow enough I'll close the browser sometimes rather than wait. I've even taken to running Mozilla as my browser to avoid the trouble since it seems to be Chrome specific. My question is, is that Malware or just Google selling more and more ad space which takes a while to load.

Does anyone else have this problem? I run Windows 7 with Norton Security.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by hardflex

Let me ask this question along those lines. My Google Chrome has gotten very slow with lots of delay loading pages, slow enough I'll close the browser sometimes rather than wait. I've even taken to running Mozilla as my browser to avoid the trouble since it seems to be Chrome specific. My question is, is that Malware or just Google selling more and more ad space which takes a while to load.

Does anyone else have this problem? I run Windows 7 with Norton Security.

Yes Chrome has become more resource hungry of late.

Are you running AdBlock?
Iframe irony: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs | ExtremeTech

[hardflex]

no, I guess I should get it ?

edit oops, just read your link and it worsens the problem.

So is it a function of the way pages are written with iframes then and the browser won't matter?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by hardflex

no, I guess I should get it ?

No, it makes things worse these days.