Google search finds the virus kidnapped on 1 million computers
Google plans to warn users of the Internet more than million people to their computers with the virus, which object to the malicious network searches.The theft program Google and other search requests and redirects them to the sites that drive the criminals behind the scam to the Internet traffic.
Now you will be greeted Google users with a yellow warning at the top of search results in the case and affected by it, according to the security of KrebsonSecurity blog.
Said Damien Menscher, a Google security engineer, malware appeared to find their way into computers through antivirus and fake, also known as terror programs. Unsuspecting victims download the software, which is used after that a weakness in the Windows operating system takes control
of the searches on the Internet.
When I entered a search, instead of going directly to Google for the first time sent to the servers controlled by cyber criminals, which modify and direct traffic.
Hoax was discovered when engineers temporarily shut down one of the Google data centers for maintenance. Were converted normal traffic for the search of the company's sites, but noted Mr. Menscher more than a million computers were still trying to contact centre.Further data dormant investigations revealed the signing of the movement is unique and generated by the malware, which will be revealed for Google now, and to encourage victims to remove them from their computers.
Intiative and is another sign that Internet companies are becoming more aggressive in their response to cyber crime. Microsoft recently shut down the world's largest source of spam through the courts, and the Virgin Media and TalkTalk has implemented systems to warn of broadband subscribers in the cases of their computers or visit the grave site, respectively.
Now you will be greeted Google users with a yellow warning at the top of search results in the case and affected by it, according to the security of KrebsonSecurity blog.
Said Damien Menscher, a Google security engineer, malware appeared to find their way into computers through antivirus and fake, also known as terror programs. Unsuspecting victims download the software, which is used after that a weakness in the Windows operating system takes control
of the searches on the Internet.
When I entered a search, instead of going directly to Google for the first time sent to the servers controlled by cyber criminals, which modify and direct traffic.
Hoax was discovered when engineers temporarily shut down one of the Google data centers for maintenance. Were converted normal traffic for the search of the company's sites, but noted Mr. Menscher more than a million computers were still trying to contact centre.Further data dormant investigations revealed the signing of the movement is unique and generated by the malware, which will be revealed for Google now, and to encourage victims to remove them from their computers.
Intiative and is another sign that Internet companies are becoming more aggressive in their response to cyber crime. Microsoft recently shut down the world's largest source of spam through the courts, and the Virgin Media and TalkTalk has implemented systems to warn of broadband subscribers in the cases of their computers or visit the grave site, respectively.
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