Scareware attack targets Google Chrome
by Ed Bott | April 21, 2011 3:31am PDT | Image 1 of 6
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It starts with a "poisoned" Google search
This case study starts with a simple Google search using Google Chrome. The circled link is the sixth result on the first page. Click that link and you're taken immediately to a compromised website that uses social engineering to try to scare the user into installing an unwanted and dangerous program.
For more details, read my blog.
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It would be a non-issue if you were using Chrome OS. That "exe" would mean nothing.
@BIGELLOW
Yes, if only 96% of the 1 billion computers in the world would change operating systems, everything would be better. I mean, it's not like the malware writers would target a new OS that actually managed to get some usage share, right? Oh, wait...
Yes, if only 96% of the 1 billion computers in the world would change operating systems, everything would be better. I mean, it's not like the malware writers would target a new OS that actually managed to get some usage share, right? Oh, wait...
@Ed Bott
and.. checkmate.
Crack open the champagne, boys! Ol' Ed just 'one-shotted' BIGELLOW. T-Shirts are on their way and the posters are going up. What's that? A ticker-tape parade, haven't seen one in years...
and.. checkmate.
Crack open the champagne, boys! Ol' Ed just 'one-shotted' BIGELLOW. T-Shirts are on their way and the posters are going up. What's that? A ticker-tape parade, haven't seen one in years...
@Ed Bott LOL 
, good come back at the noob
, good come back at the noob 
@Ed Bott I'll just rush out and get that unreleased OS to protect my comp now. LOL That will show those malware writers.
When one uses a search engine and before he selects the results, you'd think he might look at the link in the search results. I would not expect to get information about datagrid reordering from dialdrugpharmacy.com
You might also want to translate the Mexican phrase in the search results.
I don't suppose the URL in the search results, dialdrugpharmacy.com would be a tipoff. I'll stay with Chrome thanks. Come on Ed, we know MS is your bread and butter.
@Rodo1 True enough, and I did the search myself and found lots of sites I wouldn't think would have anything to do with datagrid reordering. Turns out one of them leads to a gambling site--but I digress. It seems to me the reason the guy followed the link is that he intuited something off the mark, not because he thought that dialdrugpharmacy.com (which does not appear in the latest search results for me) had anything useful on the datagrid topic.
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