Google Webmaster Tools Helps Fight Badware

28th February 2007

Back in 2006 Google started providing alerts to users in order to warn them before they visited a site that distributed badware. In November of that year, Webmaster Tools (a.k.a. Google Sitemaps) started providing badware alerts to webmasters whose sites had been flagged.

Now Google has increased the information provided to webmasters fighting badware on their sites. The latest update of Webmaster Tools includes example URLs that have been determined to be dangerous. This helps webmasters locate hard-to-find malicious content such as 1-pixel iFrame inserts that prompt automatic download of malware from another site.

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GreenBorder Acquisition By Google In Stealth Mode | Search Daily News : 29 May 2007 at 9:25 pm

[...] Google acquired GreenBorder on 11 May 2007. Yet, word of the acquisition has only got out since yesterday, and that too, amid much speculation about Google’s actual intentions with the new acquisition. It is safe to say that Google will either use the software to enable its users to browse the Internet safely, or will bundle it with other Google software, such as the Google Desktop Search to safeguard user information. The entire acquisition has been very muted. The GreenBorder website only recently posted a little note that said: [...]

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