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Microsoft has expanded the Live Search Webmaster Center toolkit with new items designed to sniff for malware. Via the tools added to the Webmaster Center, web content owners will be able to detect malicious code present on their website, or on the pages of a website that they link to.

The Redmond giant's corner of Live Search dedicated to webmasters has offered from the get-go the possibility of assessing a site's outbound links. With the new tools the company has simply taken these capabilities one step further, with the addition of the malware detection feature, permitting webmasters to filter links that could pose risks to users. Microsoft informed that the links pointing to web content used to spread malicious code would be disabled, with the Live Search engine automatically flagging them as malware, and permitting webmasters to filter links that could pose risks to users.

"One of the biggest dangers to searchers on the Web today is a maliciously hijacked website that injects malware onto a user's computer. Oftentimes, this happens when the site with the malware download is a trusted site. When you link out to other sites you trust, you typically have no way of knowing if those site owners are actually keeping their sites secured and free of malware. As the owner of a site, you want to protect your customers from this kind of malware," revealed Jeremiah Andrick, program manager, Live Search Webmaster Center.

The revamped Outbound Links tool in Webmaster Center will permit webmasters not only to sniff for malware on their websites and outbound links, but also to download reports of the assessments, which can be analyzed offline.  

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