New service watches for and cleans malware attacks

Web browsers who understand the threat that malicious malware attacks, spyware, and Trojans can carry to an operating system, can be terrified when they come across a website that has been marked as a security threat by Firefox or Google, and will quicky navigate away with their fingers crossed.

However, if you are the owner of the website, seeing your website flagged can be equally terrifying.

For those who have encountered the reality of a malware attack from the web owner’s prospective, a new company, Dasient, founded by a few ex-Google staffers and based in San Jose, may offer some relief.

The mission plan of Dasient is to watch the web for websites that have been marked as infected and then offer website owners diagnostics and quarantine options for the infected website so that it can be restored to its healthiest state and escape from the black mark of death.

The service operates on a subscription payment plan that averages a cost starting at $50 per month.

Dasient may have found the right part of the market to target, as the 2009 Sophos Security Threat Report estimates that a new Web page is infected every 4.5 seconds, which makes the threat of a virus attack to a website owner just as relevant as the threat of a virus infection to a personal PC user.

This type of service is especially needed now, given that more people are building websites who lack the technical knowledge to clean websites, since it is possible to launch a website without formal training in computer coding and programming language.

Dasient is mainly targeted at smaller website owners who do not have a large IT support team to maintain their website, in an effort to serve the ‘ripe’ and unknowledgeable according to the founders of the company, in other words, the innocent.