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Written by Daniel
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Monday, 07 August 2006 08:42 |
Google offers malware warnings
Watch out, there's adware about
By John Leyden
Published Monday 7th August 2006 10:35 GMT
Google has teamed up with an anti-malware organisation to offer warnings when search results might otherwise lead surfers to sites hosting malicious code.
The search engine giant is using data from the Stop Badware Coalition (StopBadware.org) to display warnings about potentially harmful sites. In this way, Google hopes to provide users with a safer searching experience.
Warnings issued currently link to a general page on StopBadware.org. But once research on hacker sites is finished, StopBadware.org will replace this general alert with a specific report on a site.....More
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