[Discuss] why don't web hosts scan their sites?

[eric.chadbourne at gmail.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

Hi All,

Over the weekend I fixed a small local business web site that had been
hacked.  Same old story, they were using a popular cms, didn't update
it and and old javascript library was compromised.  It was done by
this ass anonboy:  https://www.google.com/search?q=hacked+by+anonboy
A scan with clamav could have easily alerted the host of the
situation.  Why don't these guys scan their own servers?  I bet
godaddy is hosting thousands of hacked sites serving up malware.  I
can't imagine allowing this to happen on my server.  It seems every
low level "web developer" is giving clients wordpress, drupal, and
other cms solutions without providing support after installation and
then the client gets owned.  The clients should be using plain HTML in
most cases I've seen and not a dynamic site but that's another
argument.

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Eric Chadbourne
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http://theMnemeProject.org/
http://WebnerSolutions.com/