Google Now Alerts Users About Virus On Computers

Article by Raj Chowdary Posted: July 20, 2011

Google announced that it will start alerting the users who are using malware or malicious software infected computers with warning messages while they perform search on Google.

In the official post they have mentioned “Recently, we found some unusual search traffic while performing routine maintenance on one of our data centers. After collaborating with security engineers at several companies that were sending this modified traffic, we determined that the computers exhibiting this behavior were infected with a particular strain of malicious software, or malware.”

The malware infected computers send traffic to Google through proxies and Google will deliver warning notices along with the search results.

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