Fake VirusTotal site serves malware

[A Guy]

VirusTotal - the popular free file checking website - has been spoofed by malware peddlers, warns Kaspersky Lab.

A simple visit to the site triggers the download of a worm via a java applet embedded in the code

Source removed

A Guy

[JayCub]

Thank you A Guy for bringing this to our attention, as it's a popular site to use and one to be aware of ....

[ashboy039]

thanks for the info..

[FunkY]

Thanks for the news A Guy

[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the heads up . Url ends with .de so just be careful .

[leofelix]

I'm sorry
I had to remove the source since that site is listed here
http://www.malwarepatrol.net/stats.shtml

That site is apparently engaged in the distribution of malware.
Should the owner think MalwarePatrol is in error can get in touch with MalwarePtrol in order to delist his site

[safeguy]

Thanks for the heads up . Url ends with .de so just be careful .

I'll just like to add that there are also those that ends with .tk and .in from what I've seen. It doesn't matter what the ending is...the most important thing is you don't end up on any one of the fake sites unless you have some security measures set up in place.

http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2011/05/warning-fake-virustotal-site-serving.html
http://dottech.org/tipsntricks/14884/

[INDRANIL]

Yes agree with you . I just want to say that the original site is virustotal.com and you have mistakenly entered virustotal.xxx now if you carefully use you Heuristic it will help you to recognize .

[jj1two3]

Thanks for the information A Guy.