Breaking News:Google Reveals that Yahoo is Infecting User Computers with Viruses

[proTrader]

This has to do with a service launched by Google that checks for malicious software and viruses on websites using a technology adapted by Google's.

The story is real and I am surprised by this. You can read the full article here: Business and Technology News, Breaking News

For a person like myself, who regularly use the yahoo mail for financially sensitive stuff like domain names and bank accounts etc., this is an alarming sign.

What you guys say? Should we consider quitting Yahoo mail and related services or is there something in the fine print?

 

[dotker]

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for yahoo.com

What is the current listing status for yahoo.com?

This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 9371 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-08-26, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-08-26.

Malicious software includes 49 trojan(s), 6 scripting exploit(s).

Malicious software is hosted on 5 domain(s), including incheongh.com/, yimg.com/, pc-cop.net/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including flasharcade.com/.

This site was hosted on 37 network(s) including AS24429 (CNNIC), AS36752 (YAHOO), AS14778 (INKTOMI).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, yahoo.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including mtnblvd.com/.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

Next steps:
Return to the previous page.
If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=yahoo.com

interesting any inputs on this?

 

[RTM]

Considering the breadth of content hosted by YHOO, I think 1 page out of almost 10K checked by GOOG is probably a false positive, a UGC (user generated content) issue ...

It's interesting, but I don't think it smacks of a conspiracy (yet)

Rob

 

[matt_bodis]

Well, did you check Google.com itself? Also comes back as malicious hosted sites:

Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for google.com

It really doesn't mean much as it could be user hosted sites using Google services or Yahoo services.

 

[proTrader]

In case of GOOG, the malicious software is hosted on user hosted domains which are not owned by Google. Whereas in case of YHOO, one of the domains hosting malicious software is yimg.com which is clearly owned and hosted by Yahoo Inc. yimg.com has an alexa ranking of 434 as whenever I visit yahoo.com, some content is downloaded from l.yimg.com (You can see that in lower left corner of your browser window while yahoo.com would be uploading on your screen). This makes me a bit uncomfortable while visiting yahoo.com.
I hope that yahoo has not done anything wrong on purpose, but if someone has really broken into a site owned by yahoo and infected it, then it might be as serious as yahoo being malicious.

 

[proTrader]

Digg

Here's a Digg on this story: Google Reveals that Yahoo is Spreading Trojan Viruses

 

[mariesophy]

This is todays status but i'm confused why YAHO is infecting more than GOOG???????????

What is the current listing status for yahoo.com?
This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 4357 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-08-27, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-08-26.
Malicious software includes 54 trojan(s), 6 scripting exploit(s).

Malicious software is hosted on 6 domain(s), including incheongh.com/, yimg.com/, pc-cop.net/.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including flasharcade.com/, siggiez.com/.

This site was hosted on 36 network(s) including AS24429 (CNNIC), AS36752 (YAHOO), AS14778 (INKTOMI).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, yahoo.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including mtnblvd.com/.

Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

 

[zero7starz]

This... almost ends up explaining the problem my boss has with her laptop. Shes a yahoo-a-holic, and I'm always having to whipe/reload her computer because its just full of malware and god knows what else. /sigh/ I really like yahoo's email system, too.

 

[.X.]

I have said it in years past, And will say it once again, Google Sucks A$$

 

[jdenwar]

its just a crazy humour...

I still remember couple of months ago.... google display all site as malicious hoster on its search results.


The problem is some ads site got some adware (ads to commercial software and toolbar)........ Google identify it as malicous..


Check these sites.. Yahoo is safe..
Norton Safe Web: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=yahoo.com&x=0&y=0
McAfee site advisor: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/yahoo.com



I just checked google.com with it itself.
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com

Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 1 domain(s), including konrjt.cn/.

LOL

 

[jagdotme]

I have said it in years past, And will say it once again, Google Sucks A$$

LoL True

 

[mariesophy]

It must be true because my friend's domain also displayed in malware list a month back lolz... he did nothing but making posts and getting revenue from adsense.

its just a crazy humour...

I still remember couple of months ago.... google display all site as malicious hoster on its search results.


The problem is some ads site got some adware (ads to commercial software and toolbar)........ Google identify it as malicous..

 

[bodil4o]

I don't think this is possible...
Yahoo is too big to spread viruses ...
And yes ... there could be "bugs" or something like the google bombing :o

 

[proTrader]

Lets hope this new Yahoo thing is a really a crazy humor by Google.

btw I feel a bit relieved after checking yahoo at Norton and McAfee siteadvisor.

But we must also remember that its not impossible for big dudes like yahoo & google to be hacked - it has actually happened in very recent past: Yahoo! Local Hacked - Vulnerable to SQL injection - Softpedia.

Small and medium players are probably even more vulnerable as we have already learned about Elance and Namedrive being hacked just a few months back.

 

[rufryder]

Never liked Yahoo mail - NEVER! And, 2 yahoo email IDs that I do own, which I rarely use, but whenever I do, my desktop & laptop crashes. Happened yesterday as well, which annoyed the crap out of me. (know nothing about malware, etc.. but commenting on yahoo mail itself)

 

[Bushidoho]

Luckily I never ever used yahoo. I wouldn't even know how their website looks like.