Google Distributing Malware: Not So Safe Browsing

Searching_ _ _ · Sep 22, 2011

The company’s Safe Browsing service uses Google’s wide-ranging spiders to look for evidence of malware distribution on the network at large; the findings are used to block potentially dangerous sites.

So what happened when Google inspected Google.com?

Oh my. Here are some results:

“Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 3 time(s) over the past 90 days.”

“Of the 2321615 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 50 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. … Malicious software includes 296 trojan(s), 35 scripting exploit(s), 15 worm(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 5 new process(es) on the target machine.”

“Over the past 90 days, google.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 11 site(s)…”

“[T]his site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 172 domain(s)…”

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Google busts itself for distributing malware - ZDNet Blog

Hungry Man · Sep 22, 2011

Golly, the site that leads to billions of links leads to malicious ones too?

I asked a Google spokesperson for an explanation and received this response:

Google’s automated malware scanning systems don’t play favorites when searching for malware - they scan and flag Google sites just like any other site. Many Google properties are designed for user-generated content - like Google Sites, Google Docs, YouTube, etc. So Google has developed sophisticated systems to help ensure user-generated content is safe, including our dynamic malware detection system which feeds data to the the Safe Browsing Diagnostic pages.

Whenever we find malware on a Google property we’re committed to protecting users. Yes, that may mean adding a Google property to the malware list. But the best way to protect users is to remove the malicious content. Google’s Anti-Malware team works closely with other Google teams to quickly clean up user-generated content on Google properties.

Battling malware is a difficult and on-going task. Google’s priority is protecting users, and we hold ourselves to a very high standard. Google’s Safe Browsing API protects millions of users every day as proof of our commitment.
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elapsed · Sep 22, 2011

Will happen on every search engine including Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, etc.

Noob · Sep 23, 2011

Yeah any massive search engine will be prone to this. (Yeah i sound like im with Google but isn't that true?)

John Omniviz · Sep 29, 2011

Noob said:

Yeah any massive search engine will be prone to this. (Yeah i sound like im with Google but isn't that true?)
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this is very true, its not like they can test everything right ?

J_L · Sep 30, 2011

Lol, at least it's honest.

siljaline · Oct 2, 2011

More SEO poisoning on Google during rollout of Firefox 7.0.1

fsr · Oct 2, 2011

siljaline said:

More SEO poisoning on Google during rollout of Firefox 7.0.1
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For me that result is displayed ON TOP wot scorecard

siljaline · Oct 2, 2011

Domain reputation scannings results can be dubious at best as I am showing that site as clean. Not that I would download Mozilla apps other than from Mozilla.

Thanks for your comments and findings.

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