In 1.3 percent of Google searches have malware hits

During one year research Google has found more than 3 million malware installing web sites. Majority of them are porn sites but also other sites are listed. Two thirds of those sites are hosted in China.

Most worrying thing is that more and more malware installing sites are in search results. In about 1.3 percent of Google searches have at least one malware hit and amount has been rising all the time.

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Trojan hijacks Google ads

There is a new trojan spreading which changes Google text ads to other ads.

BitDefender found Trojan.Qhost.WU trojan which edits hosts file of
the infected computer.

After that, computer doesn't load Google ads but ads from elsewhere.

- Virus harms users and webmasters by re-directing readers and money as well, BitDefender expert Attila-Mihaly Balazs said to vnunet.

Source: vnunet