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FYI…
- http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/20/windows_live_malware/
20 March 2007 ~ "…According to researchers at Sunbelt-Software, Live.com's affair with malicious sites runs so torrid that malware-related returns on the search engine number in the thousands. Terms that trigger similar results tend to be Italian phrases, including, to name a few, "adsl offerta toscana," "istituto geografico italiano," "dvd da scaricare" and "testi reggae." Sunbelt blogged here* about the sludge fest two weeks ago, but Live.com has continued to spew the noxious results unabated. Google and Yahoo long ago managed to filter most of the same sites from their returns. "I don't think it was very responsible to keep these malware sites up for so long," says Francesco Benedini, a spyware researcher at Sunbelt. "I'm not saying Google and Yahoo! don't have a problem, but it's much more invasive on Live.com." A Microsoft representative says in a statement that "to the extent that spammers are successful in essentially manipulating results, they will hurt the user experience on all search engines". That left us scratching our heads for a couple reasons. For one, the same search terms don't appear to generate malicious returns on Google or Yahoo!…"
* http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/ma…e-searches.html
March 06, 2007 ~ "It looks like the malware people have practically taken over Live search in Italy. 95% or more of the following search results lead to extremely nasty malware and exploit sites (namely rustock.b or Gromozon)…"
- http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/20/windows_live_malware/
20 March 2007 ~ "…According to researchers at Sunbelt-Software, Live.com's affair with malicious sites runs so torrid that malware-related returns on the search engine number in the thousands. Terms that trigger similar results tend to be Italian phrases, including, to name a few, "adsl offerta toscana," "istituto geografico italiano," "dvd da scaricare" and "testi reggae." Sunbelt blogged here* about the sludge fest two weeks ago, but Live.com has continued to spew the noxious results unabated. Google and Yahoo long ago managed to filter most of the same sites from their returns. "I don't think it was very responsible to keep these malware sites up for so long," says Francesco Benedini, a spyware researcher at Sunbelt. "I'm not saying Google and Yahoo! don't have a problem, but it's much more invasive on Live.com." A Microsoft representative says in a statement that "to the extent that spammers are successful in essentially manipulating results, they will hurt the user experience on all search engines". That left us scratching our heads for a couple reasons. For one, the same search terms don't appear to generate malicious returns on Google or Yahoo!…"
* http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/ma…e-searches.html
March 06, 2007 ~ "It looks like the malware people have practically taken over Live search in Italy. 95% or more of the following search results lead to extremely nasty malware and exploit sites (namely rustock.b or Gromozon)…"