26% of all tweets actually contain shortened URL’s that lead to malicious URL’s and/or downloads. With a number like that it’s bound to start giving twitter a bad name…come to think of it…it’s working. I’ll often advise my clients to avoid accessing twitter via a PC since you just can’t trust those URL’s or who actually sent them.
I think a solution is on the way though. Kaspersky is analyzing literally every tweet, following the links (if there are any) and then analyzing the landing pages for malware (it’s called Krab Krawler).
Hopefully Krab Krawler (or something like it) can be integrated into the Twitter backend. I’m sure it would require a massive cluster and lot’s of bandwidth to process all those URL’s, but if they don’t, Twitter is going to go the way of the DoDo bird.
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Wow! Malware on social networking sites these days… ridiculous
PLZ stop useing twitter its stupid go to infowars.com instead. the only media outlet that is unfilterd yep no media black out like channel 2 4 5 7 11 cnn fox and so on all news is documented and is from the AP press but wont make it to your tv.
Or recommend users to browse with a sandbox (sandboxie / geswall)
@Dario – yup, if they’re running a 32-bit OS either one is a great choice
Matt, can you do a multi-layered prevention test? I am using MSE, threatfire, and Immunet all together. All are really light and seem to behave very nicely together.
1. Microsoft Security Essentials
2. Threatfire
3. Immunet
Thanks
Bryan
@Bryan – not much of a point…nothing is going to get through all 3 of those…
@Bryan!
A guy named Max posted a comment in the post about HitmanPro,
And Max says he tested Immunet against 15 URL’s and Immunet didn’t detect ANY of them.
So until Immunet get’s more users and bigger database it’s useless to make a video review of it.