Round up of Unmask Parasites Improvements
In the last couple of months of 2009 I quitely rolled out some improvements to Unmask Parasites. I couldn’t find enough time to blog about them since there always had been some nasty malware attack that I needed to investigate and write about here. Finally, I decided that the new year beginning is the proper time to round up some improvements and new features of the last year.
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54F3 Ads on Unmask Parasites Site
As you know, Unmask Parasites is a free independent service. And I hope it will always be free. However, to be able to pay my bills, I placed Google’s contextual ads on this site.
I think, Google AdSense worked well for me (not great though). I didn’t have to search for sponsors – Google picked the most relevant ads from their vast advertizing network for me. The ads are almost guaranteed to be safe (you know, some ad networks fail to detect banners that contain malicious code). And the earnings were enough to pay for the site hosting and domain names (these are the only direct expenses I have).
This month, as an experiment, I decided to accept Jason Remillard’s offer and replaced AdSense block at the top of Unmask Parasites report pages with a banner of his 54f3.com service.
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Happy Birthday Unmask Parasites!
Exactly one year ago I purchased the UnmaskParasites.com domain name and made the first early beta version of my new service available for public testing.
One year later Unmask Parasites is still in beta but now it’s a much more mature service that has proven its viability.
Many interesting things happened during this year. I’m not a good writer to make it an interesting reading, so I’ll only list some milestones, facts and statistics here.
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Security Issues With the Blog
Yesterday, I had been notified that my blog’s web pages sometimes contain malicious scripts. I had to shut down the blog and investigate the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience. I didn’t want to expose you to any threats.
The Unmask Parasites online service was not affected (it is hosted in a different location, and is very secure). It worked all that time. And during the investigation, my blog redirected visitors to http://www.UnmaskParasites.com
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New Version of Unmask Parasites Released
Happy Chinese New Year!
I’ve got a new version of Unmask Parasites. It’s a free online tool that helps site owners reveal hidden security problems. Hope you will like it.
Safe Browsing Integration.
The major new feature is the integration with Google’s Safe Browsing project. Now examined links and all referenced domains are checked against Google’s blacklist. It’s the same list that Firefox 3, Safari and Google Chrome use.
The results will clearly indicate whether a page links to suspicious sites (bad neighborhoods) or generates security warnings in Google’s search results and in popular modern web browsers. Continue »»
Unmask Parasites is Getting Noticed.
More and more people discover Unmask Parasites. Many like the service. Some even blog about it.
This week Unmask Parasites has been featured on two popular blogs: gHack.net and MakeUseOf.com. MakeUseOf.com even added Unmask Parasites to their “Directory of Apps”
Thanks guys!
Thanks to all other bloggers who wrote about Unmask Parsites. I noticed your posts ;-)
If you have a blog and want to mention my service, feel free to contact me for any details you need for your post. If you don’t have a blog but still want to support me, consider bookmarking Unmask Parasites and submitting it to social media sites ;-)
Unmask Parasites: 10,000 checked pages and counting
Unmask Parasites online service has reached the level of 10,000 checked web pages. 556 of the checked pages were found suspicious. It’s more than 5%. The real number of checked compromised web pages is even higher since in most cases Unmask Parasites leaves it up to a site owner to decide whether detected redirects and scripts are actually malicious.
Hope Unmask Parasites has helped many site owners detect and resolve tricky security problems.
Thanks to all who used the service, helped test and improve it.
Get ready for some new interesting features.
About this blog
Occasional posts from the developer of
Unmask Parasites about things that hackers already know and site owners should know (if they don't want to be victims).
Exploit reviews, security tips, and all that jazz.
