Microsoft Live Search adds malware warnings
Posted by Maxim Weinstein
Microsoft Live Search recently joined Yahoo! and StopBadware partner Google in warning users about malware-infected websites in search results:
As Live Search crawls the web, we assess whether a page contains any malicious elements or exhibits any malicious behavior, and then flag questionable pages with a warning message.
Kudos to Microsoft for getting on board with what we believe has been an effective way of reducing ordinary PC users’ exposure to drive-by downloads and other web-based threats. We have not yet explored the new feature too extensively, so we don’t know yet how accurate their listings are or how they’re managing the process of reviewing websites that site owners believe are mislabeled or have been cleaned up. However, we are in touch with folks in Redmond, and we hope to learn more in the coming weeks.