Comment by 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.
There are standardized ways to share malware downloads. Google likely respects them.
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
Usually people use a zip file with the password "malware".