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

Proxy

[mwvdlee]

The malware works by redirecting search queries through a proxy. It should be easy for the proxy to just remove the warning or reroute it so Google can't identify the malware.

Awesome!

[abigsmurf]

I bet Malware authors are already copying these messages in order to trick people into installing scareware.