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Poisoned Google Image Searches Becoming a Problem

Posted by Soulskill on from the quick-search-for-the-antidote dept.

Orome1 writes "If you are a regular user of Google's image search, you might have noticed that poisoned search results have practically become a common occurrence. Google has, of course, noticed this and does its best to mark the offending links as such, but they still have trouble when it comes to cleaning up its image search results."

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  1. Violence is required by erroneus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The people who are doing this are criminals. They need to be stopped. It's as simple as that. Follow the money and beat the crap out of them until it stops.

  2. Re:Mac is vulnerable too by cathector · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i've been on osx for about two years, and just yesterday had my first malware experience,
    which is pretty much identical to Teckla's: i was in safari and followed a GIS link for "blanket octopus"
    and clicked on one of the pictures, and got a pop-up browser with some "security scan in progres.." BS dialog.
    no big deal.
    but then the OSX package installer opened up, trying to install some obvious malware .mpkg which had been downloaded to my desktop.
    downloading a file without my permission is already a total security fail, imo, but running the installer on it is beyond bad.
    obviously i nixed the installer and power-cycled and so far haven't noticed anything untoward, but it's scary.
    the name of the .mpkg was "MacProtector.mpkg". unfortunately i rm -rf'd without making an archive of it.
    - google shows a few hits for that. so, in short, yeah, Teckla's experience matches mine.