On Friday, I blogged saying that Old websites don’t die they just get infected the other scenario is that they become part of a spammers SEO campaign.

Working today, I went to check to see if the local police authority had cleaned up their old web page. So I wgetted the file and scanned it. It was no longer infected (hooray!) but the file was quite big. Opening the file in lynx (a simple web browser) I saw:

I saw that now instead of malware appended to the bottom of the web page we now see spam advertising Meds.

If you are no longer using/updating your web site think about deactivating it because having malware and/or spam on it will impact on your brand image.

This virus information post courtesy of rss from: SophosLabs blog

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