Search Advisor Is Flagging All Google Search Results As Safe

melsamba

I did a search on KEYGEN and CRACK just to test if any result would be flagged as unsafe but to no avail...

Am I missing something here??

Any help is appreciated!!

Cheers!!

rootkit

Hello

Welcome to the forums!

Search Advisor doesn't user term search protection to block websites. Detection are added in the cloud based on the content of the website and the files posted there.

You can not consider these pages malicious because they contain those key words:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keygen

Also, detection for cracks and keygens are added only if they are infected. Of course they are illegal, but this doesn't mean that they are also dropping files in the system.

You have thousands of freeware alternatives for every software.

Take care.

melsamba

Hello

Welcome to the forums!

Search Advisor doesn't user term search protection to block websites. Detection are added in the cloud based on the content of the website and the files posted there.

You can not consider these pages malicious because they contain those key words:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keygen

Also, detection for cracks and keygens are added only if they are infected. Of course they are illegal, but this doesn't mean that they are also dropping files in the system.

You have thousands of freeware alternatives for every software.

Take care.

Hi Cristian,

Thanks for the reply.

I must clarify that I was NOT looking for cracks or keygen or anything illegal, but I've simply used these search arguments because I believed they would generate search results that would point to malicious sites...

I'm not referring to blocking sites, rather I am referring to SA's functional role which, in my humble opinion, should be of FLAGGING sites which were malicious - on the RESULTS PAGE (before one clicks on the link). I've used to use a software called Link Scanner (great piece of code) which would do just that. It would flag suspicious/malicious sites on search engine's RESULT page and warn against clicking on the link.

Unfortunateli, Link Scannner was bought by AVG and that was the end of it..

I don't understand how every single link on the result page could be safe... surely a few of these hackers site are malicious...

Anyway, I'm afraid I can't see any purpose of using an early warning tool which flags everything as safe.. Am I missing something??

Thanks anyway, Christian

Cheers!!

rootkit

Hello

All search engines have new security policies that automatically remove malicious websites from the search results.

Just prove that this module is working properly, we have here a case:

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=35162

When you search for that website on Google, it will be properly flagged by Search advisor and blocked by the product.

Take care.