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Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites
notthatwillsmith writes "We all know that Google purges known 'attack sites' — sites that deliver viruses, spyware, or other malware to visitors — from its index of searchable sites, but that doesn't stop the text ad giant from happily selling ads linking to those sites. One wouldn't think it would be any more difficult to cross-reference the list of purged sites with the list of advertisers than it was for the main search index, would it?" To be fair, the article says that Google shut down the ad when notified of it; and no other examples of linked malware are offered. Was this a one-time oversight?
My roommate got that virus on his laptop. It's a P3 500Mhz, a little old and slow to run these kitchen sink firewall/antivirus programs that are out now.
I did get SpyHunter to identify the problems, which it did admirably. (you gotta pay for it to actually FIX the problem).
When you go into Safe Mode and try to delete some of the offending files, it STILL access denies you. I had to use Task Manager to stop the explorer shell altogether, then 'DEL' them from the command line. Once done I ran ole' trusty Autoruns to clean up.
I told him that virus is usually contracted from the bigger gay porn sites and he just looked sheepish.