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Comment by alisonkisk

5 years ago

Sorry, but you don't get to tell me I am obligated to browse your site without being notified if you have malware.

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madsbuch  5 years ago

You are not obligated to browse anything. In fact, you as a human is obligated to very little. Perhaps keeping yourself alive (which somebody might even oppose as an obligation).

If you enter at site that hosts articles on malware and it allows you to download the malware assets to play with for yourself, you should be a fool for not understanding that the site hosts malware and is not adversarial.

joshmanders  5 years ago

Assuming that this site "serving malware" isn't doing it purposely.

What if someone made a site that inspected malware and went in depth on how it worked and allowed you to download the malware to inspect yourself so you desire. Google would flag this site as bad and blacklist it, but in reality it's a research site.

  • Blackthorn  5 years ago

    There are standardized ways to share malware downloads. Google likely respects them.

    • NavinF  5 years ago

      What is that standardized way?

      Encrypted zip files with the password listed on the website is the easiest one that comes to mind. I wonder if googlebot will some day decrypt those files because a lot of pirated software is distributed in encrypted zip files. Scanning those files for viruses would be pretty useful for the average user.

      I guess captchas are the only bulletproof solution

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