Report: Google leads Bing, Yahoo!, and Twitter -- in malware distribution

When you're the big dog, evildoers are more likely to target you with their nefarious schemes. That's certainly the case with desktop malware and Windows -- it's the most popular computing platform by a wide margin, so it gets the most attention from malware developers.

The same is apparently true for Google when it comes to distributing malware. In a recent report, Barracuda Labs found that Google (unwittingly, of course) passes out more malware than Bing, Yahoo, and Twitter combined -- about twice as much as all three put together.

Since Google dominates search, it only makes sense that malware distributors would do their best to invade its results. Interestingly, Barracuda's report states that only 2% of the malware they collected was 0-day -- the other 98% was previously identified. If that's the case, perhaps Google could (and should) be doing more to ensure known malicious links are uprooted more quickly.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/29/google-malware/

It would seem like far more traffic goes through/to Google, and so there will be more malware even given identical security precautions...

:shrug: