Google being less evil

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: a few days ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5251742.stm

Google has started warning users if they are about to visit a webpage
that could harm their computer.

The warning will pop up if users click on a link to a page known to
host spyware or other malicious programs.

The initiative comes out of a larger project cataloguing programs that
plague people with unwanted ads, spy on web habits or steal personal
data.

<snip>

"Most dodgy websites that have spyware or are infected with viruses
come through search," said Eldar Tuvey, chief executive of ScanSafe.
"Because they are the ones that people do not know as well and find
through searching."
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