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."

Comments

Re:Misleading Title

[ancientt]

I was irritated by that too, but it is a direct quote from the article. I'm not sure if it is fair, but it immediately made me doubt the reliability of the information in the article.

Easy to achieve

[robmv]

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

Re:Well to be fair

[hairyfeet]

Meh if you are using a browser in low rights mode with sandboxing who fricking cares. To me that is the bigger take from this, as even Google wasn't right 100% of the time, none of them are, so its better not to have the browser running with the same rights as the user so you don't have to depend on some search engine saving your ass.

Personally I use Bing simply because I've made $20 in gift cards from doing the same searches at the shop i would have done anyway. if these companies are gonna be making money off the data I generate why shouldn't I get a cut? At least with bing I do get a cut, don't get jack shit from google.

Re:At least they are leading in something

[hairyfeet]

If they stay on the current course? I'm personally predicting 5 years, as it seems like everyone is looking at exit strategies. I mean you have the OEMs starting to sell Chromebooks which selling PCs without Windows would have been the kiss of death not even 5 years ago, Ballmer refuses to listen to the consumers which have made it clear their Apple ripoff strategy is a DO NOT WANT, and finally if rumors are true the X720 is gonna be torpedoed not by bad hardware but by bad management.

Just on inertia they could go another 3-5 but after that they are fucked, its obvious business alone isn't gonna be enough to keep them at their current bloated size and its even more obvious that they suck balls when it comes to consumers, so I give it 5 if Ballmer stays in charge.