Generic Malware Debunking Post
Yup, I’m about to do another blog post where someone says that a website is clean but it doesn’t look like it to us. I did a very similar post in January 2007, and in that post I said
I’ve checked out a quite a few “we don’t have any malware” reports at this point, and I’ve yet to see a false positive — the sites in question have each had some malware on them.
Would you believe that a year and a half later, that’s still true for me? It may be possible that our malware flagging system has false positives, but I can’t recall a single case that I’ve seen where there wasn’t some security hole or malware that was a true issue for the website owner. If you want to know why, read Google’s white paper about how we detect such stuff — it’s called The Ghost In […]
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