Web viruses?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2032016,00.asp

> From a survey of attendees at the RSA conference:

"While 29 percent of respondents ranked e-mail viruses as their most
 significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web
 viruses pose more of a threat than e-mail-born ones."

Excuse me.  Can somebody give me a definition of a "Web virus," and why it 
might be particularly dangerous?  (I mean, aside from the normal malicious attacks 
that we've all seen associated with Web pages, like phishing or XSS.)

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised: I've said for almost 20 years that even security 
professionals don't know enough about malware ...

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