Byet Update

About a month ago, I blogged about a hosting company called Byet Internet Services:

A few days ago, the team at Byet Internet Services contacted us. It seems they came across our list of the top 10 infected IP addresses from March and saw one of their addresses listed. It turns out this is an IP address they use for offering free web hosting, so it is not unusual for bad players to set up accounts for hosting malware. Byet says that they have a variety of technologies that they have developed to try to detect and block these malicious sites, so they asked us for the list of the URLs found on that IP address so they can investigate and update their systems to prevent these problems from continuing and recurring.

I’m happy to report that, a month later, when Byet asked us for updated data, there was only a single bad site in the Clearinghouse associated with that IP address. Furthermore, Byet tells me that the one bad site had already been automatically detected and disabled. This is a great example of how multiple organizations (Google, StopBadware, Byet) worked together, each using their respective strengths, to protect users from badware.