Hi mbd35,
Yes thousands of hacked sites have poisoned google's image search results,
so scan every image link before you decide to click and download.
When one has WOT installed that helps, be guided by the green results,
also DrWeb's URL checker can guide, example:
-http://www.google.nl/imgres?q=image+result& etc. etc and redirects to
-http://www.google.com/imghp
Checking: -http://www.google.com/imghp
Engine version: 5.0.2.3300
Total virus-finding records: 2570561
File size: 13.66 KB
File MD5: ea0242c1558147d986d840f6fc19ef99
-http://www.google.com/imghp - archive HTML
>-http://www.google.com/imghp/Script.0 - Ok
>-http://www.google.com/imghp/Script.1 - Ok
>-http://www.google.com/imghp/Script.2 - Ok
>-http://www.google.com/imghp/Script.3 - Ok
>-http://www.google.com/imghp/Script.4 - Ok
>-http://www.google.com/imghp/Script.5 - Ok
-http://www.google.com/imghp - Ok
Furthermore you have the protection of the avast shields and they are really good here.
But an ounce of precaution taken outweighs ever so many pounds of cleansing afterwards,
polonus