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June 16, 2004

Adware Now Capable Of Hijacking Google Results

Interesting news coming from WebProNews. Apparently, there have been some victims of an adware variation that causes the infected users browser to display ads appearing as search engine results. The adware program does not manipulate the results themselves, just what listing you see in the browser.

As "Nick W", said at the SEW forums, "They don't actually manipulate the G(oogle) results, just what your browser shows you on the page."

Andy Beal | permalink | +marktd |

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