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google warns of massive malware outbreak

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Google Inc. has detected a “large number” of Windows-based computers infected with a specific type of malicious software, and the company behind the world’s largest search engine is warning Web users they might be affected.

“This is important,” Matt Cutts, the software engineer who leads the company’s Webspam team, wrote in a post on Tuesday night.

“If you go to Google and do a search (any word will do) right now, check to see whether you get a “Your computer appears to be infected” warning at the top of the search results,” he said in comments last edited at 8:22 p.m. ET.

“If you see the message, you need to clean up the infection from your machine.”

See this after a google search? Then your Windows computer might have malware

Google security engineer Damian Menscher explained in a post to the Google blog this particular type of malware causes infected computers to reroute traffic sent to the Google homepage through a small group of intermediary or “proxy” servers.

The widespread infection was recently discovered during a routine maintenance check and confirmed by security engineers at several companies, he said.

Currently it appears as though only the Windows platform is affected by the malware.

Google did not speculate on the scale of the infection or why modified data was being transmitted to the search engine in the first place.

By issuing a public notice, Mr. Cutts said Google is trying “an experiment to alert and protect consumers” in hopes of containing the outbreak.

“Remember to do an actual search (any search will do) and check the top of the search results page; don’t just go to the home page,” Mr. Cutts stressed.

“Please share this widely.”

Google warns of massive malware outbreak | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post

i just tried it and i didnt get that message. :woot2:

i had something in my last hard drive no matter what i did i couldnt remove it threw all the resident progs @ it in safe mode and even the more nerdy removal methods but it just wouldn't go

so i was gonna format it but decided on getting a newer bigger hard drive :D

:fullofwin: good thing i own a mac

I'm fine :D
:fullofwin:

Mac ftw!
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Originally Posted by HIV+ (Post 7517475)

Mac ftw!
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i wonder how long till us mac users have to start buying/using internet security software. :(

pondering getting norton. probably a waste of money though. and a waste of computer resources.

nothing. starting to wonder if FP got trolled

Apple is quickly becoming more and more used and also market opinions are becoming more and more polarized. With it always the first to fail at pwn to own, it's only a matter of time until they get some pretty nasty virus. I bet that by simply being on a mac, either because the platform is inherently safer because it had been less of a target our because the users are the uninformed users, both ways, probably results in non-safe internet practices.
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My work computer's got some sort of google re-direct malware, can't get rid of it and neither could our IT.

I just re-routed my hosts file from google.com to google.ca as a workaround.

smart computing and using verified pr0n sites means im virus free

"Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town." -- Charlie Miller

seriously, i think steve jobs is the one causing all these virus and shit.. thats why these shit only happens to windows!

Im safe!

we'd better find john connor and make sure the terminators havent gotten to him yet
WHERE IS THE GOVERNATOR

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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7518079)

"Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town." -- Charlie Miller

oh really?? too bad those bars dont do much..... viruses, trojens , malware are able to change signature faster than mcafee, norton. Anti virus cant keep up. when i had a mac (now on linux)..it was funny 2 see how many websites would try to execute scripts to add shit to the windows OS.

I'm not affected yet... and I'm on Windows OS.
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Originally Posted by tool001 (Post 7518207)

a good hosts file and adblockplus gets rid of 99% of those websites

I'm safe! No infection here.