Detecting malicious websites

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/05/12 12:53, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     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?).
>
>
> Sorry, I should have been more clear.
>
> My mother reported the infected site to me this morning. She was at 
> work, where she runs IE on XP (no choice there). She browsed to my 
> site, and Norton popped up a warning about three separate trojans. 
> Apparently, in spite of Norton, her computer was compromised -- 
> infected with malware -- anyway.
>
> When I browsed to my site to investigate nothing popped up -- because, 
> of course, I am not running Norton.
>
> �
>
>
>     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
>

Well, your mother's work place got what it deserved and deserves.

But you haven't fully answered my questions: is this site(s) YOUR sites 
- ie you actually created them? And if it/they is/are yours then what 
are doing about protecting it/them and getting rid of the malware on 
it/them?

BTW, you do know about this site: http://validator.w3.org/  where you 
type in the URL of any site and validator shows you all the errors and 
where they are in the code used by the site?

BC