the ninjas over at google have been monitoring drive by malware in their search results, and they've come to find that more than 1% of their search results last month contained suspected malware... and they point out that the trend is increasing:
as expected, pr0n sites are more likely than other pages to contain malware. i obviously haven't read enough, but i wonder if google is delivering these pages or blocking them. even if they aren't delivering them, what about yahoo and others? i'd really like to know the percentage of malware sites which (would) appear on the first page...
one of the most important aspects of this shouldn't be overlooked. in many cases here we're talking about legitimate sights serving malware... we're talking about malicious adds being served, and other general badness.
this is why i run noscript and flashblock all the time. there are only a couple of domains i permanently allow. i don't allow youtube (or the new ytimg.com bs) by default, just as an example. sometimes it is a PITA, but this type of info reminds me that it is the smart thing to do. anyway, i'm getting ready to install safecache and safehistory too...
bleh...
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I hope google isn't blocking the sites -- it's not their job to block, imo.
You should really run *nix as your primary. I bet your mind would be more at ease :)
about half of my time is in nix on my work box... but my gaming box always makes me lazy... i need to get CoD4 running in wine... :(
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