twitter's Journal: Microsoft's search excels in spreading malware

According to the Register and Sunbelt Software, Microsoft's malware problems continue. Malware authors are manipulating Live Search results:

Here's one place where the software juggernaut's offering leads the pack: referrals for sites that actively try to infect end users' machines with some of the vilest malware known to man. ... Sunbelt blogged here about the sludge fest two weeks ago, but Live.com has continued to spew the noxious results unabated. Google and Yahoo long ago managed to filter most of the same sites from their returns. "I don't think it was very responsible to keep these malware sites up for so long," says Francesco Benedini, a spyware researcher at Sunbelt. "I'm not saying Google and Yahoo! don't have a problem, but it's much more invasive on Live.com."

As usual, Microsoft says everyone else has the same problems when they don't really. I probably don't have to worry because I use Debian, but prefer Google anyway.