Google reaches malware milestone


Google made its popularity by forefront search and web application innovation. But now Google is forefront in presenting the most malware. It is revealed that Google turns up more than twice the amount of malware than the combination of Bing, Yahoo and Twitter. This was identified by examining searches on more than 25,000 topics which showed more than 5.5 million results. According to Barracudalabs Google is the most visited site by the all users. So its a worrying news for Google users and they should take precautions for preventing malware.

The malware distributors mostly used the name of NFL player, Actresses, a Playboy, a Playboy playmate and a college student who faked admisstion into Harvard. According to Barracuda the malware attack percents are,
  • Google-69%
  • Yahoo-18%
  • Bing-12%
  • Twitter-1% 
Also the top malware blocked are listed below.

Top Malware Blocked
1.Trojan.Vundo195
2.Trojan.Win32.Zbot.gen185
3.Trojan.Redir.Exploit.Firesearch139
4.Trojan.Tdss112
5.W32.Gaut.A99
6.Trojan.Win32.Tdss.bbbt91
7.Tracker.DivX90
8.Adware.Toolbar.Mysearch.Myway84
9.Adware.180Solutions.Zango72
10.Backdoor.Tidserv.K64



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