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LinkScanner detection 1494 is correct

08

Jun

2012

It is not uncommon for the AVG Web Threats Research Group to receive comments from webmasters of compromised sites that are serving malicious content to their visitors, questioning whether the AVG detections on their sites are correct. They almost invariably are correct. The Web Threats team maintains the LinkScanner component and the team is justifiably […]

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TSA website link leads to Blackhole exploit kit

01

Jun

2012

The AVG Web Threats research group has detected an obfuscated redirect on a page belonging to a vendor listed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) web site. Visitors following the link on a TSA page were also served exploits via a Blackhole exploit kit. AVG personnel alerted TSA and the vendor to the problem […]

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AVG Web Threat Update: Week 20

21

May

2012

1. What’s lurking in those links on YouTube? YouTube visitors should be wary of the links that come with YouTube videos and should be especially wary of videos that turn out to be graphics directing them to links on the page. This one “only” had a survey scam on it. An earlier version, which was […]

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