Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
Summary: Google isn't hosting malware anymore, but according to a tool they provide that lets you check up on any domain, their own google.com at one point was indeed hosting malware (software that is installed on a users machine without their consent).
Google isn't hosting malware anymore, but according to a tool they provide that lets you check up on any domain, their own google.com at one point was indeed hosting malware (software that is installed on a users machine without their consent). After doing some digging, Tony Ruscoe found that the problems didn't stem from www.google.com, but rather video.google.com.
Of the 265674 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 05/23/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 03/13/2008.
Malicious software includes 4 scripting exploit(s), 4 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 10 new processes on the target machine.
Anyway, if you are curious about the status of perhaps one of your own domains, type a similar URL into your browser's address bar (replacing blogs.zdnet.com with your own domain):
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blogs.zdnet.com
This functionality is related to the Safe Browsing API according to John (a Google employee) on the Blogoscoped forum. You may be interested to see the status of some other popular websites too -- try eBay and MySpace.
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If Google is not immune to this stuff
re: If Google is not immune to this stuff
RE: Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
What is the current listing status for yahoo.com/?
This site is not listed as suspicious.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 4 time(s) over the past 90 days.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 44721 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 8 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 05/26/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 04/17/2008.
Malicious software includes 8334 scripting exploit(s), 23 trojan(s), 13 adware(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 4 new processes on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 11 domain(s), including uccc.co.kr, vistop.com, doublepoint.net.
3 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including yescounter.com, xise.cn, kfyes.com.
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, yahoo.com/ appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 62 site(s) including 0558sz.cn, 23360.com, culcn.cn.
Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 770 domain(s), including 5icp.com, lz114.cn, kidsay.cn.
Isn't that interesting?
RE: That Report on Yahoo
Does Google do that? ?:| ....yet?
Now, isn't [b]THAT[/b] [i]interesting[/i]???
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RE: Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
Amen.
Do some searches on Y! and find out
RE: Google hosting malware? Google says they were!