Analysis on Microsoft Bing search engine security

If the search results of a search engine cause the user's computer to be infected with viruses, this search engine is of no value.

There is no doubt that Microsoft has taken this into consideration when launching a new Bing search engine. Following the footsteps of other search engines, Bing may not be a pioneer in the security field, nor be its competitors far behind.

A spokesman for Microsoft said, "Bing's Malware detection function involves two things. The first one is Drive-by download, is a program automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or your unknown), when Bing detects this attack on the website, instead of directly linking end users to the website, a warning is displayed. Secondly, for socially engineering malicious websites, Bing will manually clear such websites from the search results ."

For a pass-by download, a warning will pop up when you click the title. If you still want to visit the website, you can click "browse Web page" in the pop-up warning box ". Microsoft scans the website and learns from other materials. The scanning interval varies depending on the website.

Microsoft did not disclose how they prevent attackers from infecting search engine results. This only shows that they are still working to improve their technology.

Of course, Microsoft's main competitor is Google, which occupies the largest share of the search business market. like Google, Bing provides users with the function of setting "Secure Search" Web page filtering preferences, to remove pornographic images, videos, text, and other search results. However, Bing has received a lot of criticism in this regard, because when users search for pornographic content, the search engine will pop up a prompt asking users to adjust security settings and block them.

When detecting rogue websites, Google has established some automated systems to assess and register rogue websites. When an attacker discovers that he has begun deploying a passing download or phishing attack, search engines mark them as dangerous to warn users. Google search engine also works with website administrators to ensure the security of its website. When it finds that its software has been attacked, the user will be reminded to use the Google Webmaster tool.

"We use our Safe Browsing API to publish our list of potentially dangerous websites to browsers, including Firefox, Safari, and Chrome," a Google spokesman said, "We believe that only by working together to identify attacks can we clearly identify the attacks and restore the network to a secure environment."