Google will alert users that their PC is infected with a particular strain of malware, using its traffic monitoring to spot potential problems.By keeping an eye on web traffic, Google can spot anomalies, assess where the data is coming from, and warn businesses or users that they are infected.
“We work every day to detect potential abuse of our services and ward off attacks,” said Damian Menscher, security engineer, on the Google blog. “As we work to protect our users and their information, we sometimes discover unusual patterns of activity."
"After collaborating with several companies that were sending this modified traffic, we determined that the computers exhibiting this behaviour were infected with a particular strain of malicious software, or malware.”
The company said it will warn users by displaying a notification at the top of Google search results.
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