Steve L. Hatch
Are you worried about surfing the web and stumbling onto a page that contains Malware? Who does not? Wikipedia defines Malware as:
"A portmanteau from the words malicious and software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code. "
Let me tell you of 2 very easy ways to check a site before you visit it.
Option 1: Click on my website link at the bottom of this article and look in the left hand menu and click on the link that says "check any site for malware instantly" to use Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic Tool. It includes a small Bookmarklet you can add to your browser just by dragging it into your browser's toolbar area.
Option 2:
Step 1: Open a new Tab in your browser
Step 2: Copy and paste the URL i have specified on the same page as instructed above into your address bar. This will open a Diagnostics page with the following info in the report. I have used my site as an example. What is the current listing status for christianhoughonline.com?
This site is not currently listed as suspicious.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days.
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, christianhoughonline.com did not appear to function as an intermediate for the infection of any sites.
Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malware software over the past 90 days.
I hope you found this as useful as I have. Christian B Hough