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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.

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  1. Censoring by Fredtalk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like net censorship to me! What if I wanted to visit those malware sites?

  2. Re:Some, but not all.... by toleraen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wide awake.

  3. Re:They've also changed their PageRank for many si by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was no longer the #1 hit for: Bill Roehl, "Bill Roehl", or any variation thereof. Perhaps there is simply someone else who is better at being Bill Roehl than you. Don't fret, though. You can always go back to Bill Roehl School and brush up with some post-graduate Bill Roehl stuff.

    Personally, I'm comfortable with the fact that I'm only the second-best me out there. Let that other fella have his glory, because I'm never going back to the Rob Vincent Academy. I'm not going into it here, but those bastards Rob, Rob, and Rob know why.
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  4. Re:BBC News piece by Inda · · Score: 4, Funny

    I search for 'fetch doggy go go go go go microsoft vpn excel' all the time. The top result was my favourite site until this happened.

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