The website of an Indian AntiVirus vendor named AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors’ computers.

AvSoft Technologies, based in New Delhi, sells an AntiVirus product called SmartCOP and has sold a second antivirus product called Smartdog. The company also specialises in recovering data lost due to virus attacks.

The download section of AvSoft’s S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, Chief Research Officer with security vendor AVG. “They let one of their pages get hit by an iFrame injection,” he said. “It shows that anyone can be a victim…. It’s hard to protect Web servers properly.”

The malicious software is a variant of the Virut virus family.

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