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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. Re:Some, but not all.... by rvw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google can still screw you over
    That's another goatse link for those of you still sleepy at this time of the morning... And you are awake now?