Breaking the Cycle of Malware
Jul 20, 2011Matthew Prince

Summary
This post introduces Cloudflare's capability to identify and notify users running infected machines, providing them with tools to clean up malware. This is presented as a mechanism to break the 'cycle of malware' by preventing compromised websites from distributing infectious code and by empowering websites to inform their infected users. The security settings (Low, Medium, High) are discussed in the context of challenging visitors with CAPTCHAs.
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