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Offline polonus

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Hi malware fighters,

Read about this here: http://www.itsecurity.com/features/google-vulernability-scanner-032008/

But when you try an use that site for vulnerability testing, you are being blocked by Google,

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I guess that's a good thing...
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can be used by an individual or business to spot and fix security holes — or by an attacker to find easy targets. Using Google, and its immense power to drive searches for attack friendly resources, can potentially create the ultimate vulnerability scanner.
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Hi scythe944,

It is not only that Google blocks you, but also NoScript's ABE gives a "request filtered by ABE; <LOCAL> Deny"
I think it is a form of censoring. One can use a tool to either sculpt or ruin, but taking it away just to prevent abuse is restrictive, well i.m.o.,

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I agree and disagree.  ;D
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Hi scythe944,

Well there is no race against this, only you can paste your request into Scroogle.
So the serious anti-malware vulnerability searchers will have their queries returned,
Some read: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Google-scanning-is-it-legal-746155.html

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« Last Edit: May 24, 2010, 09:50:19 PM by polonus »
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