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Google: Malware sites on the upswing

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Friday, August 28, 2009
14 years ago1,994 views

"New statistics released by search giant Google indicate that it is crawling an ever-growing number of URLs that somehow seek to infect end users' computers.

Despite that fact, the search market leader claims that it is delivering fewer nefarious sites in its search results, thereby shielding greater numbers of Web surfers.

In a new report authored by Google Security Team member Niels Provos, who is also a senior staff software engineer in the company's Infrastructure group, the search provider offers up some of its badware site trends analysis from the last 12 months, with the sheer volume of malware sites tracking ever upwards.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/online_malware/google_malware_sites_on_the_upswing.html

pointing to http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2009/08/malware-statistics-update.html

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