Saturday, September 13, 2008

Google Chrome Advisory Safe Browsing Citizen Think Tank

I have previously written about Google Chrome malware protection. I received a security warning for the link "Citizen Think Tank" in Haris Ibrahim's People's Parliament's blogroll. I decided to investigate further by clicking on the link to learn about safe browsing and obtained an Advisory provided by Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for citizenthinktank.com which I reproduce in full below:


Advisory provided by
Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for citizenthinktank.com/

What is the current listing status for citizenthinktank.com/?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 7 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 209 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 55 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 09/09/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 09/09/2008.
Malicious software includes 112 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new processes on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including 61.155.8.0.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, citizenthinktank.com/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:
Return to the previous page.
If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

Google Chrome malware protection

Google recently released a new web browser - Google Chrome, with some very interesting new feature. I had the privilege to benefit from one of them - protection from Malware. I visited Haris Ibrahim's People's Parliament with the Google Chrome just a short while ago, and clicked on a link to Citizen Think Tank and received a warning:

Google Chrome malware security warning

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!

This website at
harismibrahim.wordpress.com
contains elements from the site
www.citizenthinktank.com
which appears to host malware - software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for www.citizenthinktank.com
Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online

[ ] I understand that visiting this site may harm my computer.
[Proceed anyway]
[Back to safety]