Yahoo search to 'battle spyware'

[danrok]

See front page:
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/content/view/4177/1/

Comments?

[cloasters]

This is a good move. Can't recall Google giving me any warnings. That must mean that all of those sites were AOK. Phew!

[Áedán]

Shame about their choice of partner though. Last time I looked at Siteadvisor, it wasn't too accurate for the sites I was looking at.

Google do give warnings - I've seen 'em. I don't think they're accurate either though. After all, how difficult is it to present a different website depending on who visits it? Some hijacked sites don't send malware each time, but only every 10 or 20th visit.

[Favu]

I have seen Google giving out some warnings, and while I think that it might be a good idea, I also think it is a sort of stealth censorship - when a page has a warning it is a lot less likely to be visited, regardless of if the page is actually malicious or not.

[Áedán]

To be honest, this isn't really the solution. It's a sticky plaster at best. Perhaps the question should be is how come data on a remote web server can take control of a computer just because a web browser was pointed at it?