240 million Web pages involved Computer virus
Today,gadget news about Computer virus from Web sites around the globe shows that scammers are increasingly turning to social engineering to get malware on computers rather than exploiting holes in software, a Google study to be released on Tuesday indicates.From Cnet reports that Fake antivirus–false pop-up warnings designed to scare money out of computer users–represents 15 percent of all malware that Google detects on Web sites, according to 13-month analysis the company conducted between January 2009 and February 2010. Google analyzed 240 million Web pages and uncovered more than 11,000 domains involved in fake antivirus distribution for the study, which Google is set to unveil at the Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. Researchers also found that over the course of the study, domains used for distributing the malware were online for shorter and shorter periods of time in the face of Google’s Safe Browsing technology with Chrome and Firefox.