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Tuesday, May 6. 2008
Yahoo! SearchScan Launches
Today, my team helped launch a new feature on Yahoo! Search which goes by the name of SearchScan. (Shameless plug, I got to help work on this.) With the help of popular computer security company, McAfee, we can now warn users about dangerous websites when they search. I think this is a really useful feature as the Internet can be a dangerous place. I've jokingly been saying that the only way you can keep your computer safe these days is getting a computer science degree. That reflects the sad state of computer security.
Just two weeks ago, one of my friend's computers was infected by a trojan virus because he visited an unsafe website. I had to spend a couple hours fixing his computer. I am now highly recommending to my friend, and other not so computer literate friends to try out Yahoo Search with SearchScan.
The Yahoo Search Blog has an article entitled "A Safer Way to Search."
Here's a screenshot of the feature in action:
To try SearchScan out, go to http://search.yahoo.com and run a query on "system-defender" (evil evil malware), and you'll see the warnings.
Oh, and for my fellow Canadians, there's always http://ca.search.yahoo.com as well, we made sure you guys got the feature too
Just two weeks ago, one of my friend's computers was infected by a trojan virus because he visited an unsafe website. I had to spend a couple hours fixing his computer. I am now highly recommending to my friend, and other not so computer literate friends to try out Yahoo Search with SearchScan.
The Yahoo Search Blog has an article entitled "A Safer Way to Search."
SearchScan leverages McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to alert users if risky websites appear in Yahoo! Search results. Starting today, SearchScan will be turned on by default for all users in the U.S., Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Spain, and will scan for three types of risks in our search index:
- Browser Exploits -- These are sites that can stealthily harm a user's computer or install malware simply by visiting the site. Beginning today, any such sites or pages included in McAfee's data will be removed from search results automatically.
- Dangerous Downloads -- SearchScan will display warnings next to search results for sites that offer potentially dangerous software, such as viruses, spyware or adware. Users often may be unaware that these can be passed along with the screensavers, games and other software downloads.
- Unsolicited Email -- SearchScan will alert users to scanned sites that send unsolicited emails or inappropriately share email addresses with third parties.
Here's a screenshot of the feature in action:
To try SearchScan out, go to http://search.yahoo.com and run a query on "system-defender" (evil evil malware), and you'll see the warnings.
Oh, and for my fellow Canadians, there's always http://ca.search.yahoo.com as well, we made sure you guys got the feature too
--God