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Google Warns Searchers Of Windows Malware Infection
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Google Warns Searchers Of Windows Malware Infection
Google has started alerting users running Windows about a specific form of
local malware it can detect through network traffic flows.
By Thomas Claburn
Information Week
July 20, 2011 03:32 PM
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/231002214
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Hundreds of thousands of people using Google Search have seen this message
atop a search results page recently: "Your computer appears to be
infected." While finding malware on one's computer can be disconcerting,
it's also disconcerting to consider that Google appears to know what's on
your computer.
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In fact, Google doesn't know about your applications, apart from those you
use to access Google services on the Internet. If the company has
identified malware on your computer, it's because your computer is
probably infected with malware that hijacks Google search results and
redirects search traffic to websites for payment.
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For years, Google has presented alerts about websites in its search index
that it believes may have been compromised to serve malware. It has also
provided open-source Web security research tools such as skipfish,
ratproxy, and DOM Snitch. This is the first time Google has applied its
knowledge of Internet network traffic to identify malware on its users'
local computers.
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Google says that that several million PCs appear to be affected, that it
has warned several hundred thousand people, and that the source of the
infection appears to be one of roughly a hundred variants of fake
antivirus software. The company says it is not aware of a specific name
for the fake antivirus software responsible for the infection.
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