On Nov 28, 2007 3:31 PM, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Read my question: what does Google add to the danger? IOW, if the
> exact same link was on a page of my website, would clicking on it be
> any safer?
>
The Google part of this flamefest is that the malware authors were
smart enough to juice their pages in such a way that they rose to the
top of Google's PageRank, bringing many more people to their sites
than would otherwise have found it.
The astounding part is that in 2007 people are running browsers
("Integral parts of the operating system") that have permission to
download and execute code without the explicit permission of (or even
informing) the browser operator. What were the IE designers thinking?
--
Ted "So when does Trustworthy Computing start?" Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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