Google will warn about the transition to infected sites

"Attention! The site you want to visit may damage your computer! ”- this warning is given by the Google search engine when you click on the“ bad ”link in the search results.

For example, if you start the search for “key generator for mIRC” and follow the very first link in the search results, then you will fail. Instead of a site with key generators, the following system message will appear on the screen: “The site you want to access may damage your computer!” ( Screenshot ). Of course, no one bothers to ignore the warning and still follow this link, but you will already be warned.

Google created this technology for half a year. This is Google's contribution to the work of the non-profit StopBadware project, which Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems have been working on since January 2006. Companies have set themselves the task of finding the most effective ways to combat malware on the Internet. For this, experts were invited and seven characteristics of "bad" software were identified: 1) installation by deception; 2) fuzzy identification; 3) harm to other computers; 4) modification of other programs; 5) user data transfer; 6) interference with the process of using a PC; 7) the complexity of a full uninstall. In accordance with these parameters, a comprehensive catalog of “harmful” software is compiled.

According to SiteAdvisor statistics , about 4-6 % of all sites on the Internet are “contagious”, and for some search queries, such as “free screensavers”, up to 64% of all sites are among the search results.
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How does the filtering system of infected sites on Google - is not exactly known. Apparently, the search for malicious code is carried out automatically due to the fact that the Google engine is able to index executable files on the Internet. That is, the search for malware in the presence of a database of samples is equivalent to the usual full-text search. Although, perhaps, the catalog of malicious sites is compiled and manually.

Now only the first stage is implemented on Google search engine - these are standard warning messages. In the future, it is planned to issue more detailed information about the type of malware on each site.