A new study by Google covering 4.5 million pages, titled “The Ghost In The Browserâ€, 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.
Originally posted on May 13, 2007 @ 9:28 am
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!
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.
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:)