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by S.M. Schrama on May 22, 2007
Malware -- surreptitious software capable of stealing sensitive information from your computer -- is increasingly spreading over the web. Visiting a compromised web server with a vulnerable browser or plugins can result in your system being infected with a whole variety of malware without any interaction on your part. Software installations that leverage exploits are termed "drive-by downloads". To protect Google's users from this threat, we started an anti-malware effort about a year ago. As a result, we can warn you in our search results if we know of a site to be harmful and even prevent exploits from loading with google desktop Search.I think it is both good and necessary that a big and influencial company like google is thinking seriously about implementing security measures. There are, of course, a couple of things you clearly should not do on the net, but I meet more and more people that have absolutely no clue about the internet : They don't know what it actually is and they will typically trust anyone on it because they are there, rite ? As if some governmental agency checks and approves everyone who wants to go online....And even then, who trusts the government after having seen enemy of the state ??
(Google Online Security Blog)
Permalink: More on Google's ideas on Security
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