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Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites
alphadogg writes "In an effort to promote the 'general health of the Web,' Google will send Webmasters snippets of malicious code in the hopes of getting infected Web sites cleaned up faster. The new information will appear as part of Google's Webmaster Tools, a suite of tools that provide data about a Web site, such as site visits. 'We understand the frustration of Webmasters whose sites have been compromised without their knowledge and who discover that their site has been flagged,' wrote Lucas Ballard on Google's online security blog. To Webmasters who are registered with Google, the company will send them an email notifying them of suspicious content along with a list of the affected pages. They'll also be able to see part of the malicious code." Another of the new Webmaster Tools is Fetch as Googlebot, which shows you a page as Google's crawler sees it. This should allow Webmasters to see malicious code that bad guys have hidden on their sites via "cloaking," among other benefits.
I think you misspelt Micro$oft in your post. They are the ones with all the malware problems, the Google issue is a user error and nothing to do with Google itself. So how much $$$ did Micro$$$oft pay you for your post to discredit the opposition?
Who wants this service from Google? Any company starting to act like an internet police is a huge risk in future if not now, and it should be preemtively rejected by users. If people rely on this kind of services in future Google will list its do-s and don't-s. I didn't ask about their service, nor I would like to be informed by their *unknown* ways of analyzing my pages. And no I don't want to host a useless piece of text called robots.txt to get rid of google crawlers. Why in the hell I should say get away, while if I don't it means I welcome them.