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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: YoKenny on September 05, 2009, 07:04:26 PM
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Be Careful With Your Search Results
Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at 01 September 09 07:29
Blackhat SEO (BHSEO) is currently one of the most prevalent distribution methods for Malware on the Internet. It’s also one of the most dangerous methods because of the user-implied trust in search results. A Forrester research study conducted in 2008 showed that 50 percent of Internet users trust content delivered by search engines. It’s no surprise that cyber criminals have been using malicious search results as a main monetization stream.
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Be-Careful-With-Your-Search-Results.aspx
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Finjan and WebShield are must have.
Also K9 filter could help.
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Also
Fake anti-virus
Published: 2009-09-04,
Last Updated: 2009-09-04 03:28:27 UTC
by Adrien de Beaupre (Version: 1)
Matt wrote in with the following:
"It might be a good idea to make end users aware that the fake-antivirus scan / trojan / ransomware people have raised the bar. I'm planning to put together a small educational email to send to my end users.
I had a difficult malware extraction today. One of our users ended up with Windows Police Pro (WPP) malware installed on her machine. I was really surprised at how tough this program was to clear, and ended up re-loading the machine via Ghost image.
http://www.dshield.org/diary.html?storyid=7066
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Thanks for the info, Yokenny. :)
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Thanks YoKenny,
Indecently,
Reporting a bad search item to google:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/