Google to be Our Web-Based Anti-Virus Protector ? 171
cyberianpan writes "For some time now, searches have displayed 'this site may harm your computer' when Google has tagged a site as containing malware. Now the search engine giant is is further publicizing the level of infection in a paper titled: The Ghost In The Browser. For good reason, too: the company found that nearly 1 in ten sites (or about 450,000) are loaded with malicious software. Google is now promising to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious - with its powerful crawling abilities & data centers, the company is in an excellent position to do this. 'As well as characterizing the scale of the problem on the net, the Google study analyzed the main methods by which criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages. It found that the code was often contained in those parts of the website not designed or controlled by the website owner, such as banner adverts and widgets. Widgets are small programs that may, for example, display a calendar on a webpage or a web traffic counter. These are often downloaded form third party sites. The rise of web 2.0 and user-generated content gave criminals other channels, or vectors, of attack, it found.'"
1 in 10? (Score:3, Funny)
Huh (Score:5, Funny)
My only complaint is that the pirates at Macrodobe STILL won't support my platform of choice! When will there be a flash player for people like me!
Excuse me ... (Score:3, Funny)
Google is good, Google is great, and Google can do no wrong. Where on Earth did I ever get that pearl of wisdom? I read it on the internets, of course
right.. (Score:5, Funny)
So google is going to protect us from webpages that use less than reputable advertising and widget services. Hmm, maybe google should go into the advertising and widget service, oh wait...
Re:Wouldn't good sites with bad ads or posts... (Score:1, Funny)
A Malware Site in China (Score:4, Funny)
Re:1 in 10? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only works through Goolge now... (Score:4, Funny)
Ghost in the Browser? (Score:3, Funny)
Axis is evil (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A Malware Site in China (Score:4, Funny)
Great. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Huh (Score:3, Funny)
Re:aid and comfort to the enemy? (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I seem to recall that someone tried to run some Windows viruses in Wine.
Alas, Wine is not yet fully compatible with Windows, and it showed.
Re:1 in 10? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:1 in 10? (Score:2, Funny)
1) In Soviet Russia, first post, for one, welcomes our new Cowboy Neal overlords that can run linux on beowulf goatse clusters of this article was submitted three years ago, you stupid editors.
2)?????
3) Profit