Back in February I wrote a piece on why WordPress is a better choice than Blogger for setting up your own blog. That post is no longer available but it was basically my opinion that WordPress’ options and features allowed for much more control over your site making it a better choice over Blogger. Now it looks like there’s another reason to lean toward WordPress for your blog format - security risks…

I’m sure that no one is surprised that Web 2.0 isn’t only gaining popularity with good Google fearing web users, hackers are loving it too. Sophos.com just released their threat report for July 2008. The report highlights some interesting yet not surprising facts. Website infection rate is up 300% times faster than last year with Google’s Blogger being the number one host of malware.

“Sophos has identified that the number one host for malware on the web is Blogger (Blogspot.com), which allows computer users to make their own websites easily at no charge. Hackers both set up malicious blogs on the service, and inject dangerous web links and content into innocent blogs in the form of comments. Blogspot.com accounts for 2 percent of all of the world’s malware hosted on the web.”

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To be fair WordPress may be in the news next. The fact is Blogger hosts 2% of malware on the web but that’s still a small fraction of the low lives out there. Blogs and Web 2.0 sites and other legitimate websites are at an increased risk due to their increased popularity.

I recommend that you always know what you’re clicking on before you hit the mouse button and keep your computer up to date with quality virus, malware and spyware protection. In my opinion WordPress is still a better choice than Blogger.

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