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 > > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ > _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
