Social Enterprise
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Social engineering has become the dominant method of distribution for fake antivirus software these days. In my real-world testing with actual malware, Google Chrome did a terrible job of helping users avoid suspicious downloads. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer 9 correctly the exact same sites and files as suspicious. What's the difference?
I found numerous examples of dangerous searches on the first page of Google results. For more than a day, the number-one result for this Google search led to a site that was actively distributing malware.
For more details, see IE9 versus Chrome: which one blocks malware better?
Caption by: Ed Bott
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