Live Search Highlighting Malicious Sites

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Microsoft has finally decided to mark Malicious websites in “Live Search” search results. According to Microsoft Live Search blog: Our primary goal is to protect you from a potentially harmful page. You can still decide to risk it and visit the page, but we strongly urge against it and recommend always following our security guide.

Live Search Highlighting Malicious Sites

The web can be a dangerous place; there are threats around every corner. In recent years, threats coming from web pages have significantly increased, from malicious programs hosted on web pages, to downloads that manipulate your computer and steal your personal information. In the past, these threats mainly came from questionable websites, but today even reputable sites can turn bad, which means that everyone is at risk for malware.

One thing I am not able to get why Malicious Website highlighting is powered by JavaScript, because if JavaScript is disabled then this Malicious Websites highlighting will not work. I Microsoft needs to finds some other way to highlight malicious websites in Live Search results.

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2 Responses

  1. Velvet Blues says:

    Hmmm. Wouldn’t it be nice if Live Search just removed all spam from search results? lol.

  2. Ajay Pathak says:

    @ Velvet Blues
    i think u r right why not all search engines will remove all spam websites from their search results

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