I was just reading an brilliant post ever on Nick Carr blog (that you should add to your RSS reader) called ‘Google preparing to police web‘.
Nick says that Google will use a new software to automatically identifying websites malicious in its database. Web sites that have been identified as corrupt, using Google software are labeled as potentially harmful when returned as a search result.
Nick says:
“As users have grown wary of email attachments and installed firewalls and anti-virus software, however, the bad guys have shifted their attentions to websites in a bid to find more victims … Even an ordinary website can be risky. At a meeting on botnets held last month in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Provos warned that many web users are becoming the victims of “drive-by” downloads of bots from innocent websites corrupted to exploit browser vulnerabilities. As firewalls allow free passage to code or programs downloaded through the browser, the bot is able to install itself on the PC. Anti-virus software kicks in at this point, but some bots avoid detection by immediately disabling it.”
I think Google compared to other search engines is the first search engine to provide to protecting users from potentially hacked that could spread malware. To be onest, we’re not sure what to expect after this, but knowing Google, it’s going to be interesting.
