In a recent blogI discussed the ill effects of Web 2.0 and the main theme revolvedaround security for users of social networking sites. Well, what if youdon’t use social networking sites? What if you only just visit knownand legitimate "good" sites? For example, you read an online newspaperor view your government's national defense Web site, or look up wordson a popular online Web dictionary? Do these actions sound more likeyou? Are you protected in that case?
What most average users don’t know is that legitimate sites can beinfected as well. Symantec has seen a sharp increase in legitimate Websites becoming infected and serving browser-based exploits. For themost part, these sites are innocent victims themselves and in mostcases are unaware of the exploits hosted on their Web sites.
