Commentary on top infection stats

Posted by Maxim Weinstein Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:33:00 GMT

Oliver posted some great stats early this morning showing the networks and individual IP addresses with the largest number of infected sites. Some might be wondering why Google appears so high on a list of sites that Google itself has flagged as potentially harmful. Our colleagues at Google (disclaimer: Google is a sponsor of StopBadware.org) tell us that these sites represent infected Blogspot blogs and that Google takes these down quickly after identifying them as bad. Sometimes, they don’t get around to rescanning and removing them from their list of bad URLs right away, which is why they continue to show up in our data and in our Clearinghouse. Apparently, though, the sites are no longer a threat.

We have also been in touch with ThePlanet.com, and they say they are working to clean up the infected sites hosted on their network.

If anyone has any knowledge of how to contact the various Chinese providers listed, please let us know at contact@stopbadware.org.