The Haute Secure company offers a free online service that will help the consumers to detect and stop web hosted malware. Looks like the internet-borne computer code, created for stealing private information, will meet its end. A program is available for downloading from Haute Secure's website. It works with a computer's internet browser to spot and cease the possible damaging computer code from a website.
Haute Secure originated in November 2006, and is run by three former Microsoft security specialists. Iain Mulholland, a former Microsoft manager is the chief technology officer. The funding persons are Mr Anderson, Ram Shriram, a Google board member; and Ron Conway, a San Francisco venture capitalist and early Google investor.
The company explains how the things are going: when a web page is blocked a red warning appears. Haute will be notified if the page is blocked. Then, other PCs running Haute's program will be alert about troubling web page.
Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, an Haute Secure investor, declared that only the consumer will enjoy the service for free, but the companies' websites will be charged, in order to receive a regular reports. The price is $US20 ($21.52) a month.
Other similar services offered by the security-software companies McAfee and Symantec will work together with Haute to look for the risks represented by the growing complexity of websites. Usually hackers infect features as videos, blogs and advertisements with malware for stealing personal data. According to Chenxi Wang, principal analyst at Forrester Research, they can also exploit web sites because the code behind those features isn't written securely.
