San Francisco - Google is asking everyday Web surfers to help with its efforts to stamp out malicious Web sites.
The company has created an online form designed to make it easy for people to report sites they suspect of hosting malicious code. It's the latest step by Google to expand its database of the bad Web sites it knows about, as those sites continue to proliferate.
"Currently, we know of hundreds of thousands of Web sites that attempt to infect people's computers with malware. Unfortunately, we also know that there are more malware sites out there," Google's Ian Fette wrote in the company's security blog.
The simple form has an entry box for the Web site's URL and a space to provide additional information. Users also fill out a "captcha" to prevent software robots from reporting sites automatically.
Nice - it is sort of like Firefox's phishing reporter under the help bar.
AJ
Too much of a pain to fill out a form when they could make a plugin for any browser to simply right click and report it without filling out some form. Just my 2 cents.