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November 30, 2007 Archive

November 30, 2007

Massive campaign to infect computers twharted for now

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If you've been seeing some Google search results that don't look quite right, chances are good they were a part of a campaign to deliver malicious software to people's computers.

Attackers designed these infectious sites to show up on Google when users searched on terms like "Christmas gifts."

Computer security researcher Alex Eckelberry with Sunbelt Software says the scale of the attack is staggering.


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