SEO Service India Blog

Today Web Developers are being targeted by a nasty infection called malware. When somone visits a infected page, the page installs a infection on their machine that silently copies the passwords stored in ftp clients like coreftp, CuteFTP,  filezilla and possibly other File Transfer Protocol client software. After copying that information this virus sends it to a remote host, and then this host is authorized to access the site the credentials of which has been stolen.

After the infection some sites are crashed and some continue to operate but again they continue this process of information collecting. The way this infection is spreading is somewhat interesting.

“Twitter is one of the junction where you can get infected with tiny urls”

How This Malware affect SEO

If a infected website is running on the web, it’s search traffic will plummet. As the search engines are aware of this attack and are fighting with it from several years.  For example Google may label “This site may harm your computer” if your site is infected.

Within one and a half year Google have investigated billions of URLs and found more than three million unique URLs on over 180,000 web sites automatically installing Malware.

Check out this graph for the sites that are labeled as harmful over the time

Google reported that malware infected pages had increased to more than 1% of all search results. Check out this report of Google for further information about it.

Google has observed that the majority of malware was hosted on web servers located in China.

Web is becoming more dangerous and suspicious.

Do your part honestly to make the web safer.