Google was Crowned 'King of Malware' in Analysis
But only because Google is tops in search.
Googles strength and popularity on the internet play parts in crowing the search company as the "king of malware" by security company Barracuda Networks.
Barracuda Networks analyzed 25,000 trending topics over 5.5 million search results and found that Google accounted for 69 percent of all malware found. Yahoo accounted for 18 percent, while Bing (which supplies Yahoo search) had 12 percent. Twitter made up the remaining 1 percent.
The distribution could be partially attributed to the popularity of the search engines. According to comScore, 62.6 percent of all U.S. search traffic is from Google, 18.9 percent is from Yahoo and 12.7 percent is from Bing.
Google is also the quickest search engine in picking up new trend topics from Twitter, taking only 1.2 days to be indexed by the search engine. It takes 4.3 days on Bing and 4.8 days on Yahoo.
(Source: PC World.)
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OK, so the top search engine gives access to the most malware, seems logical to me really. Just shows you can't be an idiot and just click whatever website pops up on Google (or Bing or Yahoo), gotta protect yourself and make sure before you go to unknown sites.
This sounds to me like a self-fulfilling prophecy. People use google more often therefore more people get malware from it. But what is the percentage of using it and getting malware, if you use any of them and search for the same thing?
I keep tellin yall that Skynet is a force for evil, but yall dont wanna listen!
Get off my lawn!!!
It's obvious.
yes, we know, most people LACK common sense... that's why the most used software is often the most vulnerable to malware
not because it is bad but because it becomes the target to a great number of threats
So Google is the "King of Malware" because people have malware on their sites which are indexed in search engines and Google is the most commonly used search engine?
That's some rather projecting logic since none of the malware actually comes FROM Google or Yahoo or Bing for that matter.
WOOT Google is the king again! Doesn't matter what it is as long as your the best right?
use yahoo and you wont easily get what you are looking for
in other news, a study finds the majority of traffic accidents involves cars.....
The main problem with Google is it does not filter anything when it comes to its Sponsored ad's. Almost all the Sponsored Ad's are 100% scam sites or sites filled with malware. Bing is not perfect in this area but they do a much better job of keeping crap out in their searches.
In other news, Windows is less secure than other OS's!
In other news, Windows is less secure than other OS's!
I disagree. Apple is far less secure, just no one wants to hack it
I disagree. Apple is far less secure, just no one wants to hack it
Gah. That's exactly my point. It bothers me that I made nearly this exact same comment on another forum regarding something similar, and it flew over their heads too. Maybe my subtle sarcasm emitter is borked.
Google is so 2003. Bing is where its at now
Looking for 15 minutes of fame, are we?!
Their next analysis is: "Driving automobiles is the #1 cause for all automobile accidents!"
I know, I know... it's a bit deeper then that, but their formulation of the conclusion sucks... The conclusion should be that Google implements a less restrictive filtering mechanism for the search results, and not to imply that Google will directly infect you with malware.
Gah. That's exactly my point. It bothers me that I made nearly this exact same comment on another forum regarding something similar, and it flew over their heads too. Maybe my subtle sarcasm emitter is borked.
No worries, I got it...
It's like saying rich people account for the highest rate of Porsche crashes so they're the most unsafe drivers.
fayzaan & etrnl_frost what fun is it to hack into an already crippled and easy to get into OS? I want some meat on my OS, not some emaciated push over. Oh now back to our story, hello McFly as long as Google can make a buck off of what you're doing they don't give a rats behind about what happens to your machine. That's pretty obvious by how much support they give to their products,"read the forum"
LOL @ Acuras are malware hahahaha
Google shows the relevant results.
Its your part to be sensible enough to know what you are clicking.
Not Google's fault.
yuuup its just like windows and apple but one nice thing it only takes google 1.2 days to index sites....i rather some malware and finding what i'm looking for rather then less malware and not be able to get what i want
Kind of a pointless 'award.'
Hold on, people actually use twitter? it's a corporate made social site made to look like a non-corporate made social site. They sell your info, they post it all over the news an all in hopes of becoming a Facebook. Get rid of it, it's as useless as Myspace.
in other news, a study finds the majority of traffic accidents involves cars.....
ROFL, thats pure sarcasm
That's why i used WOT (web of trust) on both Firefox and Chrome to let me know what websites might be dangerous.
That's good someone who take good care of our common colds in computer.
Google is also the king of ad revenue. Seems you can't go anywhere without their cookies. Even this page is being tracked by Google Analytics and Adsense.
Though only 2 of the 8(!) trackers for this page...
That's why i used WOT (web of trust) on both Firefox and Chrome to let me know what websites might be dangerous.
Yes, but many stupid people will still ignore its warnings and got to an unsafe site nonetheless.
I have done my own tests and found Bing is much worse than google most of the results at top were places that install fake av's on your machine.
Also for freeware apps search on bing bring up bad sites at top that install adverts and popups with toolbar on your machine ie. Softonic.
While google indexes more sites than any other search engine no search engine is free of bad sites.
Quite a few phishing sites showed up on bing search having to do with stars, celebs and sports.
I have to agree with all of these people above me here, when you`re the biggest target, you`re more likely to be attacked. I`m not endorsing security through obscurity though, please use protection people!
It's only logical, honestly.