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Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware
adeelarshad82 writes "According to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test, searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches. The study looked at nearly 40 million websites provided by seven different search engines. About 10 million results came from Bing and another 10 million from Google. 13 million sites were provided by the Russian service Yandex, with the rest coming from Blekko, Faroo, Teoma and Baidu respectively. Of these 40 million sites, AV-Test found 5,000 pieces of malware—and admittedly small percentage of websites."
Microsoft has much more experience with malware than Google does.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
I don't want my searches returning malware links.
Especially since they're incompatible with my OS.
Because it's not guaranteed (to be safe)?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
This is kind of a deceptive title, the article is about how Google results contain less malware sites, because Bing misses them when scanning.
My new malware detection strategy is garaunteed to detect 100% of all web based malware.
The AV solution is so fast and simple, you don't need to install anything, you don't even have to click a single link (I would reccomend you don't): In my AV system Every Page is Considered Malware!
How soon until they join the ranks of Digital, Wang, Novell, etc.
Thanks to all the Microsoft FUD going around, people are going to think that Google is telling their neighbors that they've been looking at furry videos.
"Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware"
IMO this is a bullshit article. Why?
Because...
https://www.virustotal.com/en/about/
"What is VirusTotal
VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners."
I assume VT discovers more Malware.
Fuck you, Bing, and Fuck your Bing Commercials.
We're number one!!! We're number one!!!
Also:
...and admittedly small percentage of websites."
editing plz?
If loss of personal information and privacy concerns you, then Google is the biggest malware of them all.
We're Number One!
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
From TFA:
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Easy to achieve, I have found a lot of website malware that only manifest if your user agent is Internet Explorer, those infected sites have code that try to hide injected HTML/JS code to Google Bot. Unless Google start violating the robots.txt convention and crawl the net as Internet Explorer, those sites will be never detected by them.
I have not found an infected site that include code to hide from Bing, so this could help MS, and MS could be using information obtained by the users that browse with Internet Explorer and use their Antivirus Software
Google's been in the search game for a while now. They're quite used to being scammed, SEOd, manipulated, and probably have whole departments and armies of programmers/scientists just devoted to keeping their search results malware and scam free (As much as possible at least)
Google often goes out of their way to point out that their main purpose is to simply categorize and index the information available on the internet.
I'd like to see Microsoft create virus and malware programs. With their track record, they could make one really great version and then the next release will be total shit. They can then shut down this department and malware will be dead forever. I suggest they create this new malware division with people from the following past projects: Windows 8, Vista, ME, Clippy, Bob, and a few others. Of course they'd probably get in trouble for some antitrust issues if they did this..
that microsoft make their homepage blue in honor of this achievement.
The title is wrong. A more useful one would be "Bing shoves 5x as many malware links at you at the top of your searches, without realizing it."
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Nice to know Bing is good at finding something !
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I'd rather pay $20 than use Bing.
So I just got scroogled on all that mall ware? I demand that you hand it back immediately.
If my comment didn't sound as good in your head as it did in mine, then I guess we all know who's to blame
Microsoft and Malware... nuff said.
Bing finds LESS malware than Google because it offers up 5 times MORE malware to users than an equivalent Google search. The title may lead one to believe that Microsoft is BETTER at finding malware, but in fact, they suck MORE at it...
If you read the article, the mpm (Malware per Million) is quite low in any case, but because there are billions of searches a day, that makes the odds much more likely to occur than, say winning the Lottery...
"There *IS* no patch for stupidity" -www.sqlsecurity.com
I mean we all hope for this, despite the extra work: recite the I.T. Mantra "Mo Problems, Mo Money." Job security bro. Microsoft has it right. Sadly.
...You're infected!
Most people are mostly good most of the time.