The number of websites spreading badware (spyware, malware, and deceptive adware) is rising in an alarming rate; in many cases, the websites are otherwise victims of malicious hacking. Badware is malicious application that tracks your online behavior and pumps that information back to insincere marketing groups so that they can assail you with targeted ads. stopbadware.org is an education nonprofit backed by Google, Lenovo, Sun Microsystems - "neighborhood watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware while providing reliable yet objective information about downloadable applications to help web users make better choices about what they download onto their computers.
In other had spybye.org which is a low interaction client honeypot developed by Niels Provos allows to determine whether a web site is malicious by a set of heuristics and scanning of content against the ClamAV engine. This tool is comes very handy for web masters to determine if their web pages are carrying browser exploits that can infect visiting users with malware. It functions as an HTTP proxy server and intercepts all browser requests. SpyBye uses a few simple rules to determine if embedded links on your web page are harmlesss, unknown or maybe even dangerous.
SpyBye operates as a proxy server and gets to see all the web fetches that your browser makes. It applies very simple rules to each URL that is fetched as a result of loading a web page. These rules allows us to classify a URL into three categories: harmless, unknown or dangerous. To try SpyBye, configure your browser to use www.spybye.org:8080 as proxy server and then go visit http://spybye.org/. If you see that a URL is being fetched that you would not expect, it's a good indication you have been compromised.
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