Google Warns Users About Active Malware Infection

dinscott writes "Google has begun notifying its users that a particular piece of malware is installed on their computers by showing a big yellow notification above their search results. The warning begun popping up yesterday, and does so only for users whose computers have been infected by a particular strain of malware that hijacks search results in order to drive users towards websites that use pay-per-click schemes."

Comments

Same as before.

[poofmeisterp]

Flashback, man.

This is almost 100% the same as the last piece of malware I was asked to remove from three peoples' machines over the course of a couple of months.

It was such a pain in the butt because I spent an hour manually cleaning the registry while using a live CD, looking for the newest modified-time files on the machine, looking for installed "Oh-I'm-so-cool" applications, browser extensions, system libs, etc etc etc.....

In the end, I find out that it was cleaned off after my first registry run key deletion session, but the damn proxy was set in both Mozilla and IE to a remote IP. Now, Proxy is one of the first things I check with there's ad-based or redirectional malware reported.

What's next?