As the battle cries of computer monitoring software and cell phone spyware continue to echo the hollow binary spaces within your frontiers, they have always met their worst nightmare by confronting Google’s consistent neutralizing efforts. In this vein, Google has been the next best thing to Sherlock Homes in sensing whatever malignant evil crouches underneath your skin while you are mesmerized by the beguiling flashy pop ups. My apologies for the caricatural farce, but it’s beyond doubt that Google has played its role in combating these ghosts that have haunted our daily electronic lives for last 5 years, so it would be fair to try and understand how they have done it.
Your shining armour hurts my eyes
In a call to reveal how Google plumes itself in achieving the milestone of marking five years of protection from malware, Google has kept busy egotisticly attempting to shoot a line. The company elucidated its accomlishments in terms of putting forth a safe environment for its users, in a recently published blog post. They give stack loads of statistics basically alluding to the home run hit by Google in terms of obviating the attacks by spyware like the variety of computer monitering software sneaking around these days. Google has apparently been the bullet to your gun, rather the bullet and the gun, in putting down the attacks directed at its users from spyware, even the government funded ones. Indeed, Google has swashed its victory to the highest degree, but as the statistics indicate, the company’s efforts seem worthy of the red carpet moments that it continues to savour.
With statistics... go ballistic
Ingeminating the pride that Google claims, it is quintessential to consider the numbers mongered by the company. Approximately 600 million Chrome Safari and Firefox users come across several warnings regarding phishing and spyware on a daily basis, while about 9500 malicious websites are found by Google. The search items on Google that correspond to the “compromised site” warning are numbered between 12 to 14 million. In addition to these massive figures that tend to suck your brain cells dry, Google prompts warnings for around 300000 downloads using the download protection for Chrome, on a daily basis.
If you are biwildered by images of green characters running down your computer screen by now like in the Matrix, well don’t be, because this Google giant sends thousands of notices regarding malware to the ISPs and webmasters for removal each day. Additionally, it is also responsible for the elimination of phishing pages within sixty minutes of detection.
The cat and the rat
After spreading extensively across the anti-spyware terrain, Google aspires to reach out its iron grip to malware as well. Google has moved its gaze to Chrome extensions and Web Store’s plug ins while raising the stakes on downloading protection and phishing detection. Furthermore, there is ongoing discussion over safeguarding Android apps meant to fend off threats from Android spyware looming over Android phones. Google is already known to put up bulwarks for any Android spyware that come in storming and these new trends point in the same direction.
The cat and mouse chase continues for Google just the way it has for past five years. While the adversary grows stronger Google is also adapting to the ways and continues to strengthen its counter moves.
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