Google Study: 1 out of 10 web pages have malicious codes
A new study by Google covering 4.5 million pages, titled “The Ghost In The Browser”, reveals that 10% of web pages are capable of activating malicious codes and 16% are suspected to contain codes that might be a threat to computers.
“To entice users to install malware, adversaries employ social engineering. The user is presented with links that promise access to ‘interesting’ pages with explicit pornographic content, copyrighted software or media. A common example are sites that display thumbnails to adult videos,” said Niels Provos, Google researcher.
In response to this emerging threat, Google already created a system alert stating “this site may harm your computer” for all identified harmful Web sites. Although this action cannot arrest this problem, it helps minimize the number of users affected by these malicious codes.
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You know if you have a Mac you really don’t have to worry about to much of that crap! All those files end up doing nothing on your mac. Those Apple ads are true!
By Dave Butler on May 13, 2007 9:40 pm
Google is truly changing the way businesses do business. They really do focus on the needs of their “customers” defined as the people doing the searching instead of being defined as the people who are buying ad space.
By Kathy on May 14, 2007 8:57 am
[...] Google最近发布了一份名为”The Ghost In The Browser“的安全报告（via 901AM），结果显示在所调查的450万个网页里，有10%是包含被称作“隐蔽强迫下载”(drive-bydownloads)的恶意代码的，有16%涉嫌含有对电脑造成威胁的代码。这些数据令人震惊，因为这意味着，互联网比我们想像中的更危险。当然，除了安装防火墙及杀毒软件以及警惕不明链接外，要想更安全地浏览网页，你可以选择FireFox(用了都说好)，因为相比IE而言，它有着更好的安全性能。 [...]
By Google称10%的网页包含恶意代码！ at Ks Home on May 14, 2007 12:29 pm
Response to Dave Butler… yea I know about Mac, but my son also needs to get BootCamp and now needs to get genuine WindowsXP to use BootCamp (he’s in big with videos and Mac one is toooo expensive and has the Windows one) which all means that once Windows is on the virus have a chance to come in, even on a Mac!! That’s the thing, still not a lot of people using Mac’s but once there is BEWARE the hackers will have a joy ride!! They’re mean, spiteful and hurtful creatures who haven’t seen Mac as big enought area to waster their time with YET!! Glad you’re not having problems though! Enjoy and take care. Blessings:)
By Mary S, on May 16, 2007 9:54 am
[...] Google最近发布了一份名为”The Ghost In The Browser“的安全报告（via 901AM），结果显示在所调查的450万个网页里，有10%是包含被称作“隐蔽强迫下载”(drive-bydownloads)的恶意代码的，有16%涉嫌含有对电脑造成威胁的代码。这些数据令人震惊，因为这意味着，互联网比我们想像中的更危险。当然，除了安装防火墙及杀毒软件以及警惕不明链接外，要想更安全地浏览网页，你可以选择FireFox(用了都说好)，因为相比IE而言，它有着更好的安全性能。 [...]
By Google发布报告称10%的网页包含恶意代码? - Ks Home on June 21, 2007 4:25 am
[...] Google最近发布了一份名为”The Ghost In The Browser“的安全报告（via 901AM），结果显示在所调查的450万个网页里，有10%是包含被称作“隐蔽强迫下载”(drive-bydownloads)的恶意代码的，有16%涉嫌含有对电脑造成威胁的代码。这些数据令人震惊，因为这意味着，互联网比我们想像中的更危险。当然，除了安装防火墙及杀毒软件以及警惕不明链接外，要想更安全地浏览网页，你可以选择FireFox(用了都说好)，因为相比IE而言，它有着更好的安全性能。 为此，Google要在搜索结果里给有害的网页直接标记安全警告。虽然这种方法不能完全的解决互联网的威胁问题，但是可以减少用户被恶意代码损害的机会。Google作为一个搜索引擎，不仅努力给用户提供最准确、快速的搜索结果，还给尽量是用户的上网体验更好、更安全。我想，这也是Google拥有众多的铁杆粉丝的原因之一吧！ [...]
By Google发布报告称10%的网页包含恶意代码? - Ks Home on June 26, 2007 11:22 pm