Does a Site Have Malware? Google Provides Diagnosis

[Guest 98 Guy]

I post this here for those win-98 users that are feeling increasingly

insecure about web-browsing.

 

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Does a Site Have Malware? Google Provides Diagnosis

 

May 23, 2008

 

Just append any domain - your domain or another site you want to check

on - to the end of the this URL:

 

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=

 

Read more about this here:

 

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-05-23-n62.html

 

The results of testing google.com itself are interesting:

 

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com

 

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Of the 383891 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 4

page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed

without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on

05/24/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this

site was on 03/13/2008.

 

Malicious software includes 4 scripting exploit(s), 4 trojan(s).

Successful infection resulted in an average of 10 new processes on the

target machine.

 

Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including 58.65.239.0,

truemaybe.com, abc-powers.com.

 

5 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for

distributing malware to visitors of this site, including xtraff.biz,

x-traffic.ws, smartvideochannel.com.

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See also:

 

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/05/safe-browsing-diagnostic-to-rescue.html