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Malware Infesting Google Groups

I’m a very big fan of Google Groups, however lately Google Groups has been overrun with posts containing links to malware downloads. So far google has done nothing about this and it’s really too bad.

The malware that’s being distributed is usually the Zlob Trojan. The screen shots below were taken just a few minutes ago while searching for “symantec download”.

On page 3 of the results we see a link with Symantec download bolded (grabbing an unsuspecting users attention)

Upon clicking the hyperlink we are brought into the post. Inside the posts are 2 huge hyperlinks going to http://downloadbf dot com/best

Once one of the links are clicked a download immediately starts. The download…setup.exe…a zlob Trojan (props to AVG for detecting and removing Zlob.WMH).



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Malware that Redirects your Web Search

A lot of new malware redirects your search engine queries to low tier search engines which just scrape results from google and yahoo and throw up “tons” of ads instead info or the site you were looking for.

One of the low tier search scraper search engine that is plaguing people is Toseeka.com . Toseeka.com simply scrapes the google and yahoo database and then loads their UI with ads. Take a look at the screenshots below for a search on ‘antivirus’…holy ads batman.

If you are redirected to Toseeka.com then you are infected with malware. The malware that does the redirection can easily be detected with HiJackThis and removed with HiJackThis (oddly enough). If you don’t know what to remove upon examining your HiJackThis log you can email your log to us ( askus@remove-malware.com ) and we’ll tell you.

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