Usually I consider myself somewhat well informed, but somehow several recent waves of massive, automated attacks on web servers flew under my radar. This attack, which affected hundreds of thousands of web pages and thousands of servers, adds malicious code to web pages. The code is “injected” into a “SQL” server database, thus the title of my post.
The code that is injected then tries to attack every user who visits one of the infected pages. You can read a layman’s summary of what it tries to do on the McAffee website, or if you’re more technically inclined you can try a more detailed analysis. If you want the explanation that falls somewhere in between, I’ve got you covered too.
I try very hard to stay on top of XP’s patches, however, back in March I and Mrs. Flametoad both noticed a significant slowdown on the old PC. That is partially what motivated us to go ahead and get the new PC. I wonder if we hit one of thoses infected pages and were given a malicious payload. Once I can find a misplaced Quicken insall CD, I’ll have everything needed from the old computer and can safely wipe the hard drive.
Has anyone else experience a computer slowdown within the last two months? Did you resolve it?
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