Google was Crowned 'King of Malware' in Analysis
But only because Google is tops in search.
Googles strength and popularity on the internet play parts in crowing the search company as the "king of malware" by security company Barracuda Networks.
Barracuda Networks analyzed 25,000 trending topics over 5.5 million search results and found that Google accounted for 69 percent of all malware found. Yahoo accounted for 18 percent, while Bing (which supplies Yahoo search) had 12 percent. Twitter made up the remaining 1 percent.
The distribution could be partially attributed to the popularity of the search engines. According to comScore, 62.6 percent of all U.S. search traffic is from Google, 18.9 percent is from Yahoo and 12.7 percent is from Bing.
Google is also the quickest search engine in picking up new trend topics from Twitter, taking only 1.2 days to be indexed by the search engine. It takes 4.3 days on Bing and 4.8 days on Yahoo.
(Source: PC World.)
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Mind you if you cant stop the spammers how about report the website as abuse.
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whoi [...] &cache=off
Look at that its a Chinese registered domain wanna bet its fraud?
Even I could write a script to stop the spam!
And as for article. Not really news.
All of this spam is linked to organised crime in china. Every site being advertised is related to credit card fraud. People are stupid enough to hand over credit card details and personal info and are finding out thier credit cards / bank accounts emptied and thier ID's stolen and further used for criminal activity.
Toms really needs to do something about it asap and block these spammers. Implement a capture code system and set a time limit between posting replies.
It seems that Toms doesn't care at all about those spams.
Can't they implement filters that block certain words? I doubt anyone here would use 'gucci' or 'nike airmax' in the discussion, so blocking it would only hit the advertisers.
or remove anonymous posting and authenticate registration requests via e-mail link.
@ Silmarunya,
Well I was going to Mod my Rig with some Gucci diamante stuff and use the Tongues from a pair of old Airmax for a wrist rest, but I'll not bother now
Back to topic though,
I'm not concerned about the google king of malware thing, Its like saying 100% of motorbike accidents involve motorcycles
Ofc they get crap in the system, its a popular search engine lol
Moto
all google ever finds are other search sites/ shopping comare crapola and never what your looking for. its full of spam.
^^
lol, the Irony.....................
Moto
More irony,
/sigh,
Moto