Google enrols users in fight against malware


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December 04th, 2007

Google enrols users in fight against malware

Google is hoping users of its search engine will report ‘bad sites’ to help the company fight criminals exploiting the company's infrastructure to distribute malware.

According to the Google security blog, the search giant already knows about hundreds of thousands of ‘bad’ websites but is hoping that its users will add to the list by completing an online form to report malware-hosting sites that are not already flagged.

The fight is important to Google because sites containing malware endanger the search giant's reputation by exploiting and infecting its users. This was described recently in a blog by security company Sunbelt.

Last year, Google started flagging sites listed in its search results that contain malware. When a ‘bad’ site is selected, instead of being sent to the site, the user is shown a message saying ‘Warning — the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!’. Users then have the option to continue or return to the search page.

Google ‘independently checks the web for badware and badware-linking code... using its own test procedures’ according to StopBadware.org, which is working together with Google in its fight against malware-carrying websites.

This is nothing new for security company McAfee, which already trawls the web for sites hosting malware and has members of the public reporting malware sites to McAfee SiteAdvisor.

Google's flagging of ‘bad sites’ is not nearly as comprehensive as SiteAdvisor, according to a McAfee spokesperson.

SiteAdvisor sits in the browser and ranks all sites as red, yellow or green. These are ranked via information on whether the site hosts malware; whether it is a spamming site, where entering your email address could result in thousands of spam emails; whether the site is linked to sites hosting malware; or whether it is a scamming site, where some form of money scam is conducted.

In addition, if a user enters the URL of a rated website at SiteAdvisor, detailed information on the tests run and reasons for ranking the site are displayed. This helps a user decide whether they can still make use of the site while avoiding its bad elements.

According to McAfee, SiteAdvisor downloads are ‘running into the tens of millions’.

Source: ZDNET

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