one in 10 websites (in the test) contain malware

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

Kinda sad really....


from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6645895.stm


Google searches web's dark side

Malicious programs are installed by visits to a booby-trapped site
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained
malicious code that could infect a user's PC.

Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5
million pages to "in-depth analysis".

About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called "drive-by
downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware,
without a user's knowledge.

A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could
compromise a user's computer, the team report.

To address the problem, the researchers say the company has "started
an effort to identify all web pages on the internet that could be
malicious".

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kinda nice that google may one day _not_ return results with pages
that contain malware.

That would get some companies serious attention about this issue :-)

-JP<does that mean there will be an official google malware search (beta)?>
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