People running their own websites are being targeted by a scam that tries to get them to reveal their upload passwords and site details so that they can be taken over by a malicious hacker and infected with downloadable files. These would then compromise an computer which visited an affected site. The perpetrators of this scam appear to be trying to capture the FTP user names
Site owners at more than 90 providers have been targeted at suppliers such as hostgator.com, yahoo.com and 50webs.com amongst others. Details are on the Washington Post site linked below as is a site which advises website owners how to make sure that their own site is free from risk.
W E B L I N K S
Washington Post: - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/12/phishers_angling_for_web_site.html
Stop badware: - http://stopbadware.org/home/security