Search Engine Optimization Poisoning Way Up In '10

alphadogg writes "Cybercrooks continue to abuse the Web, boosting their ability to produce what's called search engine optimization poisoning so that individuals making use of search engines such as Google's increasingly are ending up with choices that are dangerous malware-laden URL links. Some 22.4% of Google searches done since June produced malicious URLs, typically leading to fake antivirus sites or malware-laden downloads as part of the top 100 search results, according to the Websense 2010 Threat Report published Tuesday. That's in comparison to 13.7% of Google searches having that outcome in the latter half of 2009, says Patrik Runald, Websense senior manager of security research."

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[Anonymous Coward]

My search engine optimization goes to '11

Re:Malware/Spyware isn't the only problem...

[olsmeister]

By doing such things as telling me to get off a highway by crossing the meridian, and exiting on the onramp for the opposite direction.

Are you sure that it's just poor directions? Have you done anything to piss off Google lately?

i got a virus from youtube the other day

[alen]

clicked a real ad on youtube for a Mario Bros game because my 3 year old was interested. installed it and then Symanted popped up a warning that it was a trojan

Re:Link to Actual Report and My Many Gripes

[Dishevel]

He is using Lynx.