Beware How You Google

Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 12:22:20 UTC in Security
by Raven

Updated: Security researchers warn that a one-letter typo in Google's domain name could lead to a massive virus- and spyware-infection attack.

A simple misspelling of Google's domain name could lead to a Web surfer's worst nightmare.

In a new twist to the old practice of "typosquatting," virus writers have registered a slight variation of Google Inc.'s popular search-engine site to take advantage of any users who botch the spelling of the google.com URL.

Read the full article at eWeek about Beware How You Google.
 
 
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Re: Beware How You Google (Score: 1)
by hitwalker on Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 16:54:36 UTC
  
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Yeah russians again...

 
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