Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites

Stony Stevenson sends in word on the most massive "SEO poisoning" seen to date. The attack was directed at Google in particular and resulted in tens of thousands of Web pages hosting exploits showing up on the first page of Google searches for thousands of common terms (PDF). Sunbelt Software blogged about the attack on Monday after investigating it for months. By Wednesday Google had removed tens of thousands of malware-hosting pages from its index.

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Re:BBC News piece

[PopeRatzo]

The sites were targeting IE exploits.

That means nothing. I hope you're not suggesting that it was somehow OK because they were targeting IE and not Firefox. I'm willing to go a long way with dislike of Microsoft, but when I see some sort of "If you use Windows you deserve what you get" argument, I start to think that someone has made a comment without thinking it through.

Blaming the victim is ugly. I hope that's not what you are implying.