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Article 5 Million Web Sites Served Malware for at Least 3 Months And Nobody Noticed!

Article 5 Million Web Sites Served Malware for at Least 3 Months And Nobody Noticed! I really want to direct your attention to the following article which appeared today; Malicious widget hacked millions of Web sites Parked sites hosted by Network Solutions spread malware since at least May http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/081610-malicious-widget-hacked-millions-of.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2010-08-17 Essentially the article says that up to 5 million web sites have been serving up malware for at least the last three months - and nobody noticed. Even worse, it appears that nobody was safe; "The widget turned every infected domain into a drive-by attack site that launched the multi-exploit "Nuke" toolkit against users running Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera" Typically, the malware seems to only affect Windows PCs. Roll on Chromium OS! Im not sure how much longer I can continue to support windows environments for anything other than games. There...