Google has created an "Anti-Malvertising" website, which it says
will help internet users and businesses make better-informed
decisions to protect against cybercriminal threats.
"Our team's mission is to prevent malvertising in Google and
partner ad properties. As part of our outreach work to benefit the
online advertising industry as a whole, we've designed the
educational materials on this site to be relevant to all web
publishers, ad operations teams and internet users," Google
said.
According to Kaspersky Security Network, 45,857 unique
malicious, advertising and potentially unwanted programs were
detected on users' computers in March 2009.
Google has created
Anti-Malvertising.com
as a custom search engine, designed to help businesses conduct
quick background checks. It researches a variety of independent,
third party sites that track possible attempts to distribute
malware through advertising.
"With the automation of crimeware, the rise in all malicious
code will increase exponentially and endanger both an advertiser's
brand as well as their customer's PCs,"said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO
of Finjan.
Finjan urged businesses to deploy a secure web gateway that uses
real-time content inspection technologies to protect IT systems and
users from malicious content being served on compromised legitimate
sites.