Is PHP TopSites listing cause of virus attack?

[palmpal]

Hello,

Previously I never had much of a problem with getting viruses sent to me via email. Recently there have been several changes to my setup and since then I've had a total of 17 viruses sent in the last two weeks. I suspect that the changes to my setup may be allowing these viruses to get through. Symantec is catching them in my email system but I still wanted opinions about which of my changes could have caused this to happen: 1) I changed my web host to a very well known company (Apache server) that offered a better deal (maybe there is a setting that I haven't turned on?) 2) I also added my website to a TopSites List, and 3) I added the button for the TopSites List to all of my web pages. The TopSites listing is a PHP program.

Thanks for any help!

[jatar_k]

mail would come through mail servers so it would only have to do with the anti virus on your new hosts mail servers and nothing to do with your actual site configuration. Mostly it just sounds like they have less rigorous anti virus on their mail servers than your previous host.

virus laden mail is a daily thing, our mail sevrers catch buckets of them every day. Our users never even know what infected emails never got to them. So they may be removing tons more that you never know about.

Maybe your email address got added to a new spam list and it is a nasty one. Keep using the anti virus, ask your new host about their anti virus on their mail server and keep scanning everything before you open it.

[mincklerstraat]

If your new host can't offer you the same protection as Jatar suggests, (or maybe in any case), you may conisder using Mozilla Thunderbird as a mail client. I know some people have been disappointed to it, I think primarily when it's come to importing mails, but I've been very happy with its junk mail filter. 17 might be the number of viruses I get per day (not that I worry too much since I'm on Debian Linux), but Thunderbird catches most of them in the junkmail filter (you actually train it by telling it which mails are junk). If I see a mail that looks suspicious, I just click it into the junk folder and look at it there - all extra media like images and stuff are removed from it then - no worries about viruses.