[SLUG] Google anti-virus scam

From: Pete Theisen (petetheisen@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Dec 13 2009 - 14:05:02 EST


Hi Everybody,

Is it just me or is there an antivirus scam going on google right now?

Every search has this redirected link in the second or third result that
takes over the browser and starts a scan of your computer, "finds" all
sorts of viruses and volunteers to remove them whether you want it to or
not. Really hard to shut it off, then you have to do a bunch of crap to
unmax the window.

Of course, the promoted program is winders only and is too dumb to know
its ad is running on Linux.

I reported it to google but they haven't done anything.

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Regards,

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