Most users are not willing to accept any limitation or restriction
in their web surfing habits and therefore will actively
seek to bypass any possible protective measure. We argue that
we are able, with the users’ consensus, to turn a restrictive
technology as blacklisting in to a protective framework by utilizing
content filtering techniques. The use of widely available
blacklists could identify probable malware hot spots. We are
aware that numerous content filtering technologies are much
more effective than our simplistic URL filtering and regular -
expression pattern matching rules and we are planning to use
them in the near future. On the other hand we believe that
our effort to adapt long established public health techniques
in computer security is a step towards more resilient systems
in the face of evolving malware threats.