Google Online Security: Show Me the Malware!
Google Online Security has announced that webmaster can now see where is the location of the malware on their website. That is, if their website has been diagnosed by Google's Diagnostic site as 'malicious' or hosted malware. They wrote in a blog post yesterday:
As part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, we're highlighting cyber security tips and features to help ensure you're taking the necessary steps to protect your computer, website, and personal information. For general cyber security tips, check out our online security educational series or visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/. To learn more about malware detection and site cleanup, visit the Webmaster Tools Help Center and Forum.
To help protect users against malware threats, Google has built automated scanners that detect malware on websites we've indexed. Pages that are identified as dangerous by these scanners are accompanied by warnings in Google search results, and browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari also use our data to show similar warnings to people attempting to visit suspicious sites.
We're happy to announce that we've launched a feature that enables Google to provide even more detailed help to webmasters. Webmaster Tools now provides webmasters with samples of the malicious code that Google's automated scanners detected on their sites. These samples - which typically take the form of injected HTML tags, JavaScript, or embedded Flash files - are available in the "Malware details" Labs feature in Webmaster Tools. Registered webmasters (registration is free) of infected sites do not need to specially enable the feature - they will find links to it on the Webmaster Tools dashboard. Webmasters will see a list of their pages that we found to be involved in malware distribution and samples of the malicious content that Google's scanners encountered on each infected page. In certain situations we can identify the underlying cause of the malicious code, and we'll provide these details when possible. We hope that the additional information will assist webmasters and help prevent their visitors from being exposed to malware.
Read more in http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2009/10/show-me-malware.html