Comment by rdm70

5 years ago

2*) Do you believe that it is possible to have a human review every FALSE POSITIVE result from automated malware detection on the internet, when reported by those adverse affected by the false positive result?

Yes, yes I do. Banks do it for their customers today at scale.

So what happens when the fraudsters automate clicking the "request review" button? They can spin up as many phishing sites as they want, and request as many human hours in review as they want.

With banks, they only have to do that for their customers, whom they've at least had a chance of getting money from. But Google would need to provide it to every site which gets blocked, (as malware sites pretend to be legitimate). Which

  • There are plenty of mechanisms to tackle this problem. But you have to want to care.