TIOL-DDT 903 · Tuesday, 8 July 2008 · story 3 of 3

Google says Income Tax website may harm your computer!

Try logging on to www.incometaxindia.gov.in and if you are Google protected, you get a message

Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

And if you click on their Safe Browsing diagnostic page, you get a message

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Safe Browsing

Diagnostic page for www.incometaxindia.gov.in/

What is the current listing status for www.incometaxindia.gov.in/?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 300 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 59 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 07/07/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 07/05/2008.

Malicious software includes 60 scripting exploit(s), 40 trojan(s), 2 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 4 new processes on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 7 domain(s), including qqcc123.cn, o7o8gm.cn, lokriet.com.

5 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including j8j8hei.cn, kiiss117.cn, qq117cc.cn.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, www.incometaxindia.gov.in/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:

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If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

CBDT should immediately rectify this problem. This gives a very bad image to the premier tax collecting agency of India.