Detecting malicious websites

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/05/12 11:30, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> This morning one of my personal sites was hacked and malicious code 
> inserted into the index file. I only found out because my mother went 
> to the site and her computer was compromised. I did not discover this 
> myself because I obviously don't run any anti-malware software on my 
> computer.
>
> Is there a way to detect malicious websites while running Kubuntu? My 
> browser of choice, if it matters, is Chrome.

Your post is sending mixed messages about the situation. It seems that 
you are using Kubuntu and Chrome but you say nothing about what your 
mother is running and in what way was she "compromised". Overall, are 
you asking about how to detect malicious sites on YOUR Kubuntu/Chrome or 
asking how your "personal sites" (and what do you really mean by this? 
sites which you have setup or simply those which you personally use?).

While I cannot say what is available to detect malicious sites using 
Chrome but if you were using Firefox then you would find Add-ons 
(Extensions) which do give you protection against malicious sites and 
this besides the setting in FF Preferences, in the Security part, which 
will advise you when you hit a malicious site.

BC