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Few honest questions: 1. If Google detects something as malware, i.e. google software knows that it can be dangerous to users, then why it cannot prevent itself from acting as intermediary? Also, why it does not stop hosting malware? 2. >>> Malicious software is hosted on 279 domain(s), including 24corp-shop.com/, abu-farhan.com/, soaksoak.ru/. These web domains do not belong to Google. It seems google is downloading…

It's important for us (I work at Google on web-search) to be transparent about these reports, and we use them to remove / block content that is malicious too (just like other sites can use the Safe-Browsing API to get information about sites they host). With regards to where it's hosted, there are two main elements involved: a site that actually hosts the exploit (which could be a Windows EXE file, etc), and a site t…

Hi there! Why so many security reports on blogspot? http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blogspot....

Re: Diagnostic page for Google.com

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

"Of the 10 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."

What about bundleware fail?

http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/95068402386/filezilla-sou...

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