Software Turns Google into a Virus Scanner 72
Kfleming writes "Websense, a security vendor, has developed software that uses a binary search feature built into Google to hunt down malware. Using this technique researchers at Websense have uncovered over 2,000 websites hosting malware, and are also able to detect legitimate sites that have been hacked. Could this binary search feature also be used to exploit Google and trick users into downloading malware?"
Re:What about dups? (Score:3, Funny)
Fucking un-American commie, offending our good god-loving, hard working editors.
I will see that your whole internet will be banned.
Re:What about dups? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about dups? (Score:1)
Re:What about dups? (Score:3, Funny)
Let me introduce you to my friend, the Silent E!
what a good idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what a good idea (Score:4, Funny)
Re:what a good idea (Score:2)
Rhetorical question, obviously Cowboy Neal didn't want to spend more than 30 seconds on it.
Re:what a good idea (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:what a good idea (Score:2)
For one, this provides room for interesting and funny (eventhough cliched) comments
Also, although may have originated as a mistake, this is also part of the
So, just a way to maintain that.
Earlier, when the site was managed by 5/6 overworked (or lazy) people, one can understand the happening of dupes etc.
Now, when it is managed by a company, which easily can have processes to catch these dupes, I am not too sure.
It
Note to the editors (Score:5, Interesting)
Editors: Do you read Slashdot?
Sure, its flamebait, but this is a joke sometimes.
Re:what a good idea (Score:3, Funny)
For his next project... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For his next project... (Score:3, Interesting)
Speaking of automatic, could someone develop coordinated automatic scripts to take over digg? If they vote on front page stories, how many zombie clients would it take to push your stupid story or slashvertisement to their page or maybe make a couple stories dupe or trupe. I think I read they do have some sort of uber editor that does promote and kill stories, so it is not
Re:For his next project... (Score:2)
Actually, I read neither the article nor the comments from the previous story, I simply remember seeing it on the main page. My comment above was simply the first thing that came to mind (and I typed it rapidly, as evidenced by the glaringly inappropriate article).
So, sorry, but I wasn't trying to karma whore.
Re:For his next project... (Score:2)
It is pretty obvious you weren't whoring. Standard practice here is to cut and past some lengthy thoughtful (?) comment from the original or some previous version of the story to get karma with limited work. You wrote a simple one-liner.
And apologies on
Re:For his next project... (Score:2)
Re:For his next project... (Score:2)
So it should be marked -1 Naive.
Re:For his next project... (Score:2)
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interesting ... (Score:5, Funny)
-Sj53
Re:interesting ... (Score:2)
Re:interesting ... (Score:1)
It's a very large Internet so you can't immediately download it...Download it.
It's really big which means the tubes, you see, will be filled faster and will slow down the downloading of my Internet to my office, which means I won't get my emails from my office to my office through the tubes. The internets are just too big...too big. You see.
Easy to find... (Score:2)
URL Turns google into a dupe-checker (Score:5, Funny)
Malware (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Malware (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Malware (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Malware (Score:1, Interesting)
You're right, of course. But it's not so much "can't be bothered." Most users with an out-of-the box computer know of no reason to have a password other than for LOCAL security.
Manufacturers and/or MS could force the issue. But I've never heard that proposed anywhere. With wireless routers (another example) I've at least heard it *suggested* that units be shipped with software that forces a password change, or with some (simpl
"Binary search" ?! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"Binary search" ?! (Score:3, Interesting)
Come now, my good fellow; surely you don't expect computer people to start to honor precedence in their terminology. Why, that would be, uh, I think the word is "unprecedented".
We computer geeks have a long tradition of taking someone else's terminology and recycling it with meanings at odds with the earlier use. And in this case, the writer(s) probably thought they were i
It started with our abuse of the word "computer" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It started with our abuse of the word "computer (Score:3, Informative)
The defiition of "co
Re:It started with our abuse of the word "computer (Score:2)
Like most English words, it has Latin origins: computo/computare. Broken down, this basically translates to "calculate/reckon/sum".
To save all this confusion, I propose we use the word "bitswitcher". As in, "I need to upgrade my Personal Bitswitcher."
Re:It started with our abuse of the word "computer (Score:2)
I'd suggest something like "bitmuncher".
Re:It started with our abuse of the word "computer (Score:2)
Re:"Binary search" ?! (Score:2)
Come now. The word you're looking for is "blogger." You can only stretch the term "writer" so far.
What are they talking about? (Score:3, Funny)
the real story is .. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:the real story is .. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:the real story is .. (Score:2)
Re:the real story is .. (Score:3, Interesting)
ok so if I
then appearently I'm using some uber-secret technic that only the elite security professionals should know.
OK so here is now the $25,00
Re:the real story is .. (Score:1)
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To continue this analogy how about innoculating the system against future atacks. Create a processor that scrambles the microcode table. It has a run mode and an install mode. At install mode it scrambles the OP codes in the program to match the table. Any forign code attempting to run is stoped dead in its tracks.
Or how to fix Windows. Create an embedded OS that runs an emulator that provides API functions to the applications.
The linked article is just looking for ad revenue (Score:5, Informative)
Skip the linked article and go straight to the source:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,126371,
All the link does is duplicate the story summary, and then link to the PCWorld article.
Pardon me... (Score:4, Informative)
Seems like a DotBomb business plan....
So... (Score:5, Funny)
Theres gotta be a joke in there somewhere..
"In Soviet Russia, SOAP cleans your computer!"
No wait.
"I for one welcome our freshly-washed overlords!"
Crap, that doesn't really work, either.
"Let's pour hot SOAP down Natalie Portman's pants!"
Hmm. I wouldn't mind doing that, but it's not particularly funny.
"Netcraft confirms it, SOAP can eliminate viruses!"
"Hey, Goatse man, did you lose this?"
Re:So... (Score:1)
Re:So... (Score:2)
Thank fuck for that...
Re:So... (Score:1)
In Soviet Russia, SOAP cleans YOU!
Big Deal (Score:3, Funny)
Don't see a problem (Score:1)
soon my children... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:soon my children... (Score:2)
And the answer will always be "Yes."
Re:soon my children... (Score:2)
The real Gem (Score:1)
It could be a real boon once it translates into search warnings. But I can see some nasty trouble ahead with False Negatives and False Positives once everybody making spyware/malware/adware/viruses/worms starts reacting to this new threat to their existence. If google decided my clever line o
Perhaps this would make a good tool: (Score:1)
(My apologies if this doesn't make much sense, I just had wisdom teeth dug out of my skull, and I'm on lortabs.)
sigh... (Score:2)
OK, who disabled my CbN filter?
'Could an empty coke can can be used to exploit hungry bears and trick them into drinking week old urine?'
And please stop telling the idiot that it is ok to look, act, talk and otherwise communicate like an idiot in public...