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The official website of Euro 2008 got infected

By: Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

With Euro 2008 Championship fast approaching, people around the world search for web sites that could help them buy a ticket to one of their national team matches. However, such a search on the web page may have a different result than what you expect: a beautiful-looking and apparently clean site that attempts to abandon a kind of malicious software on every vulnerable computer. The Web site was really clean, but because some hackers, he was compromised, and is now attempting to infect visitors systems.

Howard Fraser, SophosLabs Britain, wrote that the file must be installed on people's computers Male / ObfJS-R, a malicious program, which was first detected on the Internet in the past year. "This scenario is for further downloads malicious content from a remote site. However, a preliminary analysis shows a rather bad scenario, though perhaps broken in incomprehensible?" Sophos said in an expert.

What's worse is that the web site has quite a high PageRank search Euro 2008 tickets, of course, get it to the results. In addition, there is a sponsored link bought his administrators, which could attract even more visitors than we expect. According to the Sophos servant, administrators could not communicate with the extra-care is recommended when visiting a Web site.

"This site is likely to attract a large number of visitors as the championships get closer, and I have no luck in trying to solve this problem (contact by e-mail and telephone so far been unsuccessful)," Fraser said Howard.

Similarly, as usual, be sure to save your security or anti-virus software up to date with the latest virus definitions and avoid visiting sites that might look suspicious. I remember, Euro 2008 is only about football, not your computer infected.

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