Software Turns Google into a Virus Scanner

Posted on July 15, 2006 by TechTweaker.
Categories: Internet, Security, Technology, Tweaks.

Websense, a well known security vendor has created software that turns the worlds most popular web search engine into an Internet virus scanner, capable of finding websites hosting malware. They uncovered more than 2,000 websites hosting these malicious files and also were able to detect legitimate sites that had been hacked. Websense has stated they do not plan to make the code public at this time.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/1253240&from=rss

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