Google Deletes Rogue Ads, Dangers Persist

An anonymous reader writes passed us a link to a PC World article about attempts by Google to curb malicious ads via their popular service. The article is somewhat bleak, though, because researchers see the fix as nothing more than temporary. "'Search engines are just too easy a target for bad guys,' says Roger Thompson of Exploit Security Labs. On April 25, Exploit Prevention Labs reported that malware distributors were using advertisements placed via Google's automated AdWords system to infect unsuspecting end-users with spyware designed to capture bank login user names and passwords."

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Re:A simple solution

[Solra Bizna]

They can also change the content of the page after it's accepted, so Google would have to check every ad fairly often.

-:sigma.SB

Slam and Advert

[Erris]

The Bungi Troll asks:

So reporting an issue is a "slam" now?

Yes, it's a slam if you only report half the issue. All of the search engines have this "problem" and M$ has it worse than others. The unmentioned root cause of the issue is a crappy browser and OS that's easy to exploit, yet somehow it's all Google's fault. That is a Google slam.

This is par for the course in the Wintel press world. The article ends up being an advertisement for Site Advisor, which is just another Windoze band-aid. The reporter who wrote this article needed to do some more research. Because they did not, they ended up slamming Google.