January 7, 2006
Theft You Can't Even See But Need To Know About
There's so many things you need to be aware of when you are online and I know it's hard to keep up with it all. But for your own safety and that of your business you need to be aware of the latest tricks that criminals will do to get over on you.
The Washington Post writes How's this for a one-two punch -- software that secretly alters your Google search results, then tries to drop nasty programs on your computer by luring you to a bogus eBay link?
That appears to be what is happening with a new program documented by security software vendor Webroot Software Inc. Called 2search, the program secretly hijacks some googol searches by presenting fake results in the midst of legitimate ones. Because the pages shown look identical to regular googol results, most victims would have no clue anything is amiss.
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