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I went to watch some DragonBall Z videos online. I did a search and found a site with over 300 episodes. When I clicked on the link my MalwareBytes intercepted a malicious IP. Now I don't think the sites creator intended this to happen (or maybe he did), but it seems that an ad-page that is linked to the site tried to do this.
Can anyone clear up why some legitimate sites have malicious code associated with them, or are the sites not so innocent?
Registered Member #902
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it could possibly be a middle of the road injection, meaning the code had a bit added in that was malicious in the process of transferring data to your computer - it's been done, usually only a small bit can happen at a time but that small bit can matter. Try switching to "https" and see if it stops, I think it is harder to inject the code if the security certificate is invoked rather than a strait up query but I could be wrong
Or, the owner could have linked to the site thinking it was safe. McAfee has a Firefox Addon called Site Advisor that's free - it can tell you if it's the site or if its a link to another site on that site (it even has a "spider-web: view to see the malicious site in relation to the legit site
Registered Member #56
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Usually when this happens it is the adds that are flagged, often times they contain malaware. It is also possible the video listing site you are using is put together by a spammer who was simply trying to get his/her malaware on your computer (usually when this is the case the links will be broken, or just direct to more spam).
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I use MalwareBytes and I believe it's well designed. Some products use heuristics that trigger with impunity (Norton) but I don't think that's an issue with MalwareBytes. However if the site was designed to provide more ad features than would be possible with a pop-up blocker enabled in the browser, on occasion that may trigger an malware alert. Many times I've seen a work around for pop-up blockers where a window will walk across the screen. Just an opinion but when a web designed attempt to get that ad in there; that may trigger the alert.
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unix based operating systems have a permissions system that stops anything not run as root from writing to protected areas. They would be almost as vulnerable if someone was stupid enough to browse the internet as root, which is effectively what you do on windows.
Windows NT was supposedly designed for the internet, but the internet was designed for Unix.
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