It’s no secret that Google is responsible for the most comprehensive spyware network, spying on internet users through their search engine, advertising programs, feedburner, webmasters tools, analytics and the notorious Gmail email service which stores users email forever even if the user has deleted it. The spyware issue is reason enough to avoid Google’s internet offerings however anybody who has seen Googles warnings in the search engine results stating “This page may harm your computer” might be interested in the fact that Google has been found to be responsible for serving over 2% of the internet’s malicious viruses through their Blogger free blog service. This information is according to a report by Sophos anti-virus…
Source : Don’t Be Evil–Just Serve Ads on It
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Looks like Google’s Blogger is a more popular blogging platform than Wordpress and Moveable Type, after all–in some circles, anyway. Internet security outfit Sophos says it detects just over 16,000 malicious Web pages each day, and nearly 2 percent of them are hosted on Blogger. “The number one host for malware on the web is Blogger (Blogspot.com), which allows computer users to make their own Web sites easily at no charge,” Sophos said in its 2008 Security Threat Report (PDF), adding that between malicious blogs and malicious comments posted to otherwise benign blogs, Blogspot.com accounts for two percent of all of the world’s malware hosted on the Web. |
Do no evil??? I don’t think so…
I’m sure any webmaster who operates a blog or a forum can attest to the fact that Blogger and Blogspot accounts for a much higher percentage of the spam that is posted in blog comments or on forums. I have made it a habit to add the domains blogger.com and blogspot.com to my comment blacklist on each new installation of wordpress because it seems 70-80% of all my trackback and comment spam links back to those spam-laden domains. Additionally, whenever I see a blogger or blogspot url in any search results, I put on blinders an avoid it like the plague.
Considering Google is so adept at policing other people’s self-hosted blogs, searching for paid links and sponsored reviews, maybe they should start at home and clean up their own mess before they start sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong. Funny thing is that even though Google accounts for the largest proportion of malicious websites, you’ll never see a “This page may harm your computer” warning when you search for Blogger or Blogspot.
oh wow nice information.
I never knew that. Thanks for this post. This is the first time I have visited your blog and its worth reading.