Using an alternative for the now gone Scroogle suspicious!

Viruses and worms
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Hi malware fighters,

Scroogle has now finally thrown in the towel, so an end has been set to the Scroogle privacy search service.

There is an alternative Ixquick, but when you try the other alternative it is suspicious.
wXw.duckduckgo.com redirects, see: http://www.unmaskparasites.com/web-page-options/?url=http%3A//duckduckgo.com/ has long suspicious script…
Others give it clean, what iss the real status? http://jsunpack.jeek.org/dec/go?report=647145b995dcf78607bed0a21d268da150dda648

pol

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Seems to be clean now…!??
asyn

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Hi Asyn,

Yes it seems clean now, so users gan go there…

polonus

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Yes, still I wouldn’t use a JS based search… :wink:
asyn

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Hi Asyn,

I think I understand you, javascript means a calculable risk, because it has shown to be the main vector of bringing malcode into a browser, and there are devious ways found by malcreants to exploit it. Especially with Web 2 browsers the script threat gained momentum over recent years. Therefore I like to use two extensions to minimize these threats, NoScript, a scriptblocker webcop, that makes you can temporally allow/disallow script, and RequestPolicy to temperally allow request only from those domains that deliver services you need at that moment in time, and when there is a malicious request or an ad-related request you do not allow that permission by default. I have the extensions for years now inside the Fx and flock browser and it has been a good line of defense for me, next to that the avast shields are a second line of defense, and these shields are getting better and better and more fine-tuned
and all we do here in the virus and worms is only helping avast towards that goal,

Damian