From: "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org>

| "Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
| news:i3jo71$hkc$1@news.eternal-september.org...


>> Virus Guy wrote:
>>> ~BD~ wrote:

>>>> I was using Safari and got a warning when I visited a URL.

>>> If you're not going to give us the exact url that spawned the
>>> warning,
>>> then why bother posting?

>>> It's a waste of time if we don't have the exact URL so we can grab a
>>> sample of the malware.

>> Isn't it xxx.uncoached.com as stated in the warning jpg and also
>> stated by
>> BD in his post?

| Not necessarily, the "uncoached" site may have been vulnerable at one
| time to an exploit to redirect visitors to another site that indeed
| hosts malware. If Virus Guy wants a malware sample he would have to
| visit the malware server site not a redirection exploit site that might
| not be continuing to redirect users. Sometimes it is an advertisement on
| an otherwise legit site that gets a site marked as suspicious.

Aka; Malvertisement.



--
Dave
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