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Google Purges Thousands of Malware Sites

Posted by kdawson on from the just-in-time-for-holiday-shoppers dept.

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.

3 of 133 comments (clear)

  1. it's like coke by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    it might be bad for the malware, it doesn't mean it's good for the rest.

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  2. PD fucking F !!!???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can somebody tell me why one would need a PDF for a list of words? WTF? So what is wrong with plain text?

    I can only conclude that sunbelt software are a bunch of complete idiots and anything they have to say is worthless.

    Un-fucking-believable.

  3. Re:BBC News piece by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.
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