Google Warns Users About "Unsafe Sites"

Dynamoo writes "The BBC is reporting that Google will start to warn users about unsafe websites, in particular those that host spyware or have privacy implications. The technology to do this has been developed in partnership with StopBadware, and appears to be an alternative to the popular McAfee SiteAdvisor application. Perhaps this will help curtail slimeware ridden sites from peddling their wares. But it will be interesting to see how Google rates some of its own products, including the potentially risky Google Desktop."

Re:This will invite more unjust lawsuits

[John Hasler]

> To win this lawsuit, the malware providers are going to have to prove that they don't
> do exactly what Google says they do, which is going to be challenging.

The successful suits will come from sites (not malware "providers")that don't host any malware but were falsely accused of doing so.

Re:An Example

[flink]

You have to actually click on the link. Here's an example: http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www. theserials.com/serial/serialbox.html [google.com]

Grease Monkey script

[John Bokma]

Grease Monkey scripts that saves you a mouse click: http://johnbokma.com/firefox/greasemonkey/google-u nsafe-sites.html [johnbokma.com]

Re:Pandora's Box

[Faylone]

Or not. http://www.google.com/search?q=pandoras+box [google.com]

Re:This will invite more unjust lawsuits

[Anonymous Coward]

Please enlighten me on what spyware Limewire has? You might be thinking of something else...

BTW, Limewire is GPL'd. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Under Windows it passes scans from Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Windows Defender.