note: Rereading the original email, I see that the domain is wrong.
Moscowtimes.ru and moscowtimes.com are not the same thing.
Moscowtimes.com is for sale and has been for a while(I suspect they
want the Moscow Times to buy it). Infecting moscowtimes.com is a lot
more probable - its a site with basic set-up, security, etc that looks
enough like a very popular site to confuse visitors into visiting the
fake one and getting infected. For all I know the owner of the site
was complicit in the infections, but I doubt it.

http://whois.domaintools.com/moscowtimes.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/moscowtimes.ru

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Kimberly Zenz <[email protected]> wrote:
> All it means is that someone placed malicious code on the Moscow Times
> page that will install on your computer and then allow for the
> installation of something else, almost certainly a trojan - see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing).
>
> This is very common vector of infection and legitimate sites
> compromised to serve malware comprise roughly 50% of all sites
> infecting visitors. Several Russian government sites already fell prey
> to this scheme.
>
> The problem is that Google et al will keep warnings for 90 days,
> which, even if the Moscow Times fixes their site and improves their
> security to an impossibly impenetrable level, visitors will still be
> warned that it could be dangerous and many will not read further, they
> will just stay away.  This makes infections like this damaging to
> organizations beyond the initial infections, but also makes infecting
> a site a nice little tool of damaging its credibility, readership,
> etc. Sketchy businesses have used it against each other, and even
> governments - I've seen this trick targeting Chinese human rights
> sites.
>
> In other words, its common (especially in Russia, although usually on
> Russian-language sites), its damaging and its nasty.
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:31 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I also get a notice from Norton Antivirus that "An intrusion attempt was
>> blocked" and Risk name: "MSIE ADODB. stream Object File Installation
>> Weakness", whatever that might mean..
>>
>> Probably they prefer we subscribe to the print edition? ))
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:05:46 +0400
>> From: Charles Borden <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Expat List  Moscow Times blocked
>> To: The Moscow Expat List <[email protected]>
>> Message-ID: <c8ca117a.9e6d6%[email protected]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> Since last night my browser has been throwing up a message that
>> www.themoscowtimes.com is a "Reported Attack Page" and has been blocked by
>> my browser (Firefox). I tried Chrome also and got the same message. Anyone
>> else have this problem?
>> Charles
>>
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