[BNM] Is my site really infected?

Rob Beattie rob.beattie at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 09:37:18 GMT 2009


Ben Rigby wrote:
> Sophos just picked it up as a virus too. favicon.ico can be added to a
> site to give the custom icon next to a tab or a link in your
> Bookmarks. It looks like someone or something has managed to add a
> favicon.ico file to your site that contains some sort of malicious
> script. You might just be able to delete the file from your site, if
> it doesn't return then you could be ok.
> 
> Ben
Thanks. There doesn't seem to be a 
'favicon.ico' file anywhere on the site 
though. I certainly haven't created one in 
Rapidweaver  - and the warning wasn't there 
the day before yesterday.

rob


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