Disease Vectors

A "disease vector" is a Web site or URL known to distribute Internet threats including spyware, password-cracking applications, key-stroke trackers, virus kit downloads, and other malware.  

Another category of disease vectors are sites made to look legitimate, but below the surface the hacker directs all the "back-end" functionality—links, data posts, and so on, to his or her own locations.

Trend Micro quickly adds confirmed malicious sites to the phish and spyware pattern file so you can prevent LAN clients from downloading the malware, or from being duped by the lookalike sites.

See also:

• HTTP Spyware/Grayware Scan Rules

• Sending Trend Micro Suspected Internet Threats