Antivirus software vendor AvSoft Technologies' website hacked to
install virus on visitors computers

http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/Onl...computers.html

From: "juanarias" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| Antivirus software vendor AvSoft Technologies' website hacked to
| install virus on visitors computers
|
| http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/Onl...computers.html

LOL -- Never heard of AvSoft!

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On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:05:40 GMT, "David H. Lipman"
<DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>From: "juanarias" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
>| Antivirus software vendor AvSoft Technologies' website hacked to
>| install virus on visitors computers
>|
>| http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/Onl...computers.html
>
>LOL -- Never heard of AvSoft!

I figured this report was some kind of backhanded way of gaining
advertising, etc.
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From: "Michael Cecil" <(E-Mail Removed)>


|
| I figured this report was some kind of backhanded way of gaining
| advertising, etc.

Nope. Research shows that they were indeed hacked via a SQL Injection or PHP vulnerability.
Visitors can get infected with a Virut virus through an IFrame exploit.

It seems the exploitations used in the malicious web site referenced in the IFrame are all
well known.

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