April 18, 2009

The Web page of banking institution Franklin Savings Bank was shut down for the second time in a week, inconveniencing its online customers, after malicious code embedded on its marketing site forced the bank to take it offline, a bank official said Wednesday.The bank soon shut down the Web page last Friday after its security systems detected the malicious code.When problems began to resurface on Wednesday, the bank shut down the page once again and vowed that it would stay offline until the company switched web hosting providers.

"The malicious code that hit our page last week appears to be widespread on the servers of the company that hosts our Web page," said Tim Thompson, a senior vice president for Franklin Savings Bank. "We again took down our Web page to block the threat from reaching our customers. We are in the process of changing Web hosting companies and will have our new page up and running as soon as possible."Though Thompson would not identify the web host by name, he did say that the provider hosts hundreds of thousands of Web pages around the world.