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Google warns 20,000 websites they could be infected with malware
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pawhite524 
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Posted 19 April 2012 - 12:39 PM
This article has me a bit confused. Is Google in any way responsible for this infection? Is this a puff piece to show what a good "corporate citizen" they are? Does it have anything to do with G-mail, Google+, their recurrent practice of accidentally invading people's privacy? If so, why didn't Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook or other competitors make such an announcement or provide a similar service?
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:53 AM
It's pretty easy to check a web site for this invasion. Using Transmit I logged into my site and did a search for the listed string, eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r). No hits - good news. Though I have gotten no notice from Google and am not sure how they would know to contact me in the first place, it doesn't hurt to check it out.
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 06:56 AM
JavaScript? Ouch. Having had to point out that Java and JavaScript are different so many times, this hurts.
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 08:31 AM
It should be mentioned in the article that simply having eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r) in your code doesn't automatically make you a victim. This string is simply part of the output of Dean Edwards javascript compressor. There are countless legitimate uses for this.
"Google has warned 20,000 websites that they might be hacked and injected with JavaScript redirect malware, Google said."
I for one would like to know where google said that.
"site owners should search for files containing “eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r)” in particular. The code may be placed in HTML, JavaScript or PHP files, Google said."
Thats just some guy posting something in a forum, there is no evidence that google was involved at all.
"Google has warned 20,000 websites that they might be hacked and injected with JavaScript redirect malware, Google said."
I for one would like to know where google said that.
"site owners should search for files containing “eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r)” in particular. The code may be placed in HTML, JavaScript or PHP files, Google said."
Thats just some guy posting something in a forum, there is no evidence that google was involved at all.
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