Deals Direct Black Listed
Deals Direct Black Listed – Australia’s largest online bargain shopping site, DealsDirect.com.au, was blacklisted by Google and major internet browsers today after it was found to be hosting malware.
The site sells a broad range of goods including kitchen items, furniture, computers, electronics, jewellery, tools, fitness equipment, alcohol, manchester, musical instruments and toys.
People visiting the site using Firefox, Google Chrome and newer versions of Internet Explorer were warned that “visiting this site may harm your computer” because it “appears to host malware”.
Visitors who tried accessing the site via Google’s search engine were also prevented from entering by a malware warning.
The messages were still popping up at lunch time today but DealsDirect spokeswoman Elisha Booth said the malicious code had been removed.
She explained that the third-party software that serves ads on DealsDirect had been “compromised” and was found to be serving malware.
A Google Australia spokeswoman confirmed this, saying “the website or the server that it runs on probably has a security vulnerability, most likely from some out-of-date software”.
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