Blogs On Blogspot Have Malware & Trojans But Wordpress Blogs Safe - Says Google

Thursday, May 29, 2008


Google's new anti malware advisory services tells you whether a site is safe to browse or does it contain any Malware, Trojans or malicious scripts that may pose security risk.

The Google's anti malware advisory service reporting 208 blogs hosted on blogspot.com to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site. Where as blogs hosted on wordpress.com are very safe and not even a single blog is reported as threat.




Here are the few points from the report on blogs hosted by blogspot.com

1. 227 suspicious activities are recorded over the past 90 days
2. 5880 torjans, 844 scripting exploits and 262 adwares are identified
3. Successful infection resulted in an average of 4 new processes on the target machine

Read the full advisory report of blogger.com and wordpress.com for more details.

You can view Google Anti Malware Advisory diagnostic report of a any web site by appending the web site name to the url "http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=". For example using the url

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=tricks2trick.blogspot.com

you can view report of Tricks 2 Trick

The reports gives answers to the following questions

1. What is the current listing status?
2. What happened when Google visited this site?
3. Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
4. Has this site hosted malware?




By htRULZ

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