Google Search Results Plagued With Malware
Posted by: markgilbert in Google, Internet, Security, tags: Google, Kaspersky, Malware, SEO
Yesterday Google purged it’s search index of reportedly over 40,000 links to sites containing malware. Over the last few months Sunbelt, the company that produces the Counterspy application, have been tracking the sites and the SEO techniques these sites have been using to get themselves to the top of the Google ranks.
There is some nice dissection of the malware links over at the Sunbelt blog.
The SEO side of things was done using a bot net to post thousands upon thousands of link in forums and comment systems to the dodgy sites in question, which is what nailed them the top Google ranks.
The malware at the heart of it all is called “Scam.Iwin” by Sunbelt, which turns infected PCs into zombie units to join the bot net and post all the needed links to crack the Google Page Rank algorithm.
So let this be a lesson to all of you, keep your machines patched and anti-virus software updated on a regular basis. Personally for Windows users I would have to recommend Kaspersky Internet Secuirty, it really seems like the best product going. High detection and removal rates, and I speak from experience when talking about it, I’ve used it at work on machines and it is leagues ahead of Norton or McAfee.
Cheers
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