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Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware"
Barence writes "Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the Web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos. The company claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments. 'Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware,' according to Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley. 'It's head and shoulders above the rest [of the blogging services].'" Sophos believes that Blogger is favored because, being part of Google, it gets spidered early and often.
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or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments
Does that mean that slashdot contains 76% of the world's goatse, simply because trolls post links to other servers hosting it on this site?
Perhaps Microsoft has 18.9% of the worlds child porn because it can be found by using their Windows Live search engine?
Part of it is probably google's good name that is attractive to malware hosts. As google "does no evil", people trust them. How could malware end up on a site hosted by a service that does no evil?
people think:
google = good
malware = evil
malware != google
profit for malware distributors!
or Windows because 99% of it can be found on Windows PCs.
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If Blogger is so full of malware or links to malware, why don't all the search results pointing to Blogger get the same warning and lack of link?
Funny. I know you're joking (I hope), but I can't tell whether it's the "blogging is stupid" joke, or the "since this technology can be used for evil, let's ban it" joke.
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It's full-service evil.
If you mean Google is a full-service evil, I have to disagree.
People who exploit the services are "evil." Google is not evil for providing very excellent services. It's the same arguments with respect to guns - who do you blame? The gun manufacturer, or the guy who shot the gun?
Thats a poor argument. Take canada vs. usa - the climate is the same, most of the laws are similar... but gun control laws are drastically different, and canada has better social services.
... but canada also has a much MUCH lower incidence of gun-related crime.
do we blame the lack of social services in the states for the gun crime? Or perhaps the availability of the guns?
On a serious note, I hope Google gets a handle on this situation before my blogspot blog becomes an innocent bystander on blacklists.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Canada also has much lower immigration. You must either have a job that is in great demand, post-graduate education, or able to put down 400k to start a business. Meanwhile here in AZ we have so many people illegally crossing the border that we had to pass laws that make employers verify citizenship before they can be given job, or they lose their business license.
Hopefully their crawlers are advanced enough to display ads for Malware removal tools alongside the infected pages.
I'd like to see what percentage of infections were facilitated through MySpace, but that would require omniscience just as this figure does.
Yes, those mean Canadians not helping the poor, oppressed and disadvantaged Mexicans. Here in the US we welcome those poor, oppressed and disadvantaged folks with open arms. As you can tell from the way laws are enforced.
Of course, we are all in danger of becoming equally poor, oppressed and disadvantaged by allowing anyone and everyone to come here.