Sunday, December 19, 2010

Google To Alert Users When a Site Is Hacked

In recent months Google has taken several big steps to improve the Search results for the users by launching features like Instant Search and Instant Preview and now Google has taken another step of showing Alert to its users when a Site is Compromised.  Google already shows a Warning message in search results with a site if it contains Malware that this Site may harm your computer but now Google will also be showing Warning with those sites that are hacked that This Site Maybe Compromised.

When you will click that Link you will be shown a Google Help Center page. It means Google has now starting using tools to detect the Hacked websites. Everyday thousands of different websites gets hacked so this step of Google will help its users to protect themselves from Hacked sites.