Drive-by Downloads—The Web Under Siege
Ryan Naraine, Security Evangelist, Kaspersky Lab
Published: January 2009
The way that computer viruses and malware travel has evolved in much the same way that information itself has changed in the way it travels. In the early days, information was typically physically transported from one computer to another using a variety of storage media. By the early 1980's, information traveled over expensive private data networks. As the U.S. government pressured corporate suppliers to provide some consistency in transport and format of the information it received, the Internet sprang into real fruition. And with it came the ability for businesses of all sizes to transmit information over this "free" network, most often using e-mail and e-mail attachments. By the late 1990's, the highly publicized viruses that affected businesses and individuals worldwide followed suit – they relied on e-mail for replication and distribution.
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