FYI...

Hard core porn invasion on Google Groups
- http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/ha...-on-google.html
March 02, 2008 - "We’ve just started seeing a hard-core porn invasion on Google Groups. So far, we have identified approximately 270 Google Groups pages with this porn... These pages push other porn pages for profit. While not all of the redirects go to malware sites, we did observe some redirects to a site which ultimately pushes a fake codec trojan, which if installed, results in a VirusHeat infection... We have alerted Google to the presence of these pages."

(Screenshots available at the URL above [offensive content has been obfuscated].)

FYI...

...Google Groups invasion continues unabated
- http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/th...her-google.html
March 02, 2008 - "There is another Google Groups invasion, with a different twist than the porn angle: spam blogs. In this case, we see splogs set up for everything from "female celebrity smoking" to air conditioners. These push searches to MCtop10.info... A list of sites tracked so far is here* (pdf)."
* http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/alex/g...egroupsspam.pdf