Google Doodle Caught in Malware Scams

Author: Donald Sears
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On Tuesday, clicking on the illustration on Google’s front page commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Esperanto’s creator L. L. Zamenhof, generated an awful lot of malicious search results — taking visitors to dodgy advertisements or pages that tried to trick visitors into thinking their computers were infected and paying for fake antivirus software. Read the full article. [Computerworld]

On Tuesday, clicking on the illustration on Google’s front page commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Esperanto’s creator L. L. Zamenhof, generated an awful lot of malicious search results — taking visitors to dodgy advertisements or pages that tried to trick visitors into thinking their computers were infected and paying for fake antivirus software. Read the full article. [Computerworld]

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