"Google has created one of the most powerful search tools in the
history of Web humanity. One of its goals along the way was to archive
all of human knowledge. Another was to not be evil.
But the company discovered that at the intersection of
archiving all human knowledge and not being evil is malware. In its
pursuit of archiving the Web, Google has inadvertently become a tool
for discovering and deploying malware. Now Google wants to turn the
tables on malware and wants you (yes, you, good reader) to report
malware to Google when you find it.
"Currently, we know of hundreds of thousands of Web sites that
attempt to infect people's computers with malware," Google developer
Ian Fette wrote in a blog post. "Unfortunately, we also know that there
are more malware sites out there. This is where we need your help in
filling in the gaps."
Google's plea for assistance follows an incident earlier
during the week when security firm Sunbelt Software identified
thousands of search terms that led to malware. The company didn't only
point out sites that discussed malware, but also actual sites hosting
drive-by code, whereby the simple act of visiting the page could be
enough to infect a user's computer. The sites identified by Sunbelt
have now been purged from Google's index. "
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