Fakealerts Invade Google Image Search Results for ’24′ Star

January 27, 2010 – 5:10 pm

By Andrew Brandt Searchers beware: Those photos of celebrities or funny cat pictures that turn up in your Google image search results might not be photos at all, but fake antivirus alerts. Evidence appears to indicate that a similar scam to one we blogged about last November may be working its way up the Google [...]

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Postmortem Michael Jackson Track Dredges Rogues

October 12, 2009 – 10:47 am

By Andrew Brandt As we’ve discussed so many times in the past, search terms that include the names of celebrities make good targets for malware authors, and search terms that include the name of dead celebrities make great targets for malware authors. Now there’s a new corollary to this postulate: Search terms that include the [...]

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