Google finds evil all over the Web

Tech Manager · #1 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 07:24 PM

The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.

The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one in 1,000 Web pages is malicious, according to Neils Provos, a senior staff software engineer with Google.

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Cybercrime is too easy, too profitable and too ignored by law enforcement.

How many malicious sites have you come across?

mjtaylor · #2 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 08:30 PM

None that I am aware. I do have firewall software and I rarely go anywhere that is not a trustworthy site ... but I do travel widely online ...

Tech Manager · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mjtaylor

None that I am aware. I do have firewall software and I rarely go anywhere that is not a trustworthy site ... but I do travel widely online ...

Do you think countries like China should be punished? By punished I mean proactively avoiding any websites in China?

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