Google was Crowned 'King of Malware' in Analysis

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Google is also the king of ad revenue. Seems you can't go anywhere without their cookies. Even this page is being tracked by Google Analytics and Adsense.

Though only 2 of the 8(!) trackers for this page... :O
 
[citation][nom]leorick[/nom]That's why i used WOT (web of trust) on both Firefox and Chrome to let me know what websites might be dangerous.[/citation]
Yes, but many stupid people will still ignore its warnings and got to an unsafe site nonetheless.
 
I have done my own tests and found Bing is much worse than google most of the results at top were places that install fake av's on your machine.
Also for freeware apps search on bing bring up bad sites at top that install adverts and popups with toolbar on your machine ie. Softonic.
While google indexes more sites than any other search engine no search engine is free of bad sites.
Quite a few phishing sites showed up on bing search having to do with stars, celebs and sports.
 
I have to agree with all of these people above me here, when you`re the biggest target, you`re more likely to be attacked. I`m not endorsing security through obscurity though, please use protection people!
 
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