Malicious Scripts – A threat you should avoid

Most Web Masters understand the importance of keeping their computers protected from viruses. An infected operating system will generally give the attacker full control over your computer. From theft of email keys to injection of malicious code on your website. In fact, many may have already passed it, when a website is infected by a malicious scripts or virus, it will be impossible for visitors to see the page, since surely your antivirus and browser will warn you about this.

This threat are pieces of code that may be hidden on completely legitimate websites, whose security was compromised, making them perfect baits for victims, who will not suspect anything since they are visiting a trusted site. In this way, criminals can execute malicious code on users’ systems, taking advantage of any of the many vulnerabilities that they may have, both in browsers and in the system itself or in third-party applications.

Malicious scripts can give an infinity of possibilities to the attacker, even administrative access to your web system, they can also install shells programmed in PHP to upload or make faces of your page, replacing the original content with political slogans or just for fun. If you take the proper precautions such as:

▸Use the services of reputable companies

It is well known that most of the reputable hosting providers are more secure, if you were to use a hosting company with prices below the market prices, rest assured that it will cost you more expensive in the end. The technical support will not be the best and the backups will cost you an arm and a leg.

▸Create daily backups of your information

In this way you can effectively eliminate the possible negative repercussions associated with having your site infected, since you will be able to restore it to the state it was in before the attack. Some malicious scripts are specifically designed to wipe data from the server, while others give hackers access to the servers so they can execute commands and generally upload illegal files. In addition to storing these backup copies on your local hard drive, it is advisable to have redundant copies on some external medium such as USB.

Also check:
Macro Malware threats designed to fool the victims
What Scripts are and what uses are given to them

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