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Wednesday April 27, 2005 12:05 pm
Google Users Beware
If you’re an avid Google user, (and really, who isn’t?), be sure to pay close attention to how you type Google’s address into your browser. Security company F-Secure made an announcement that if users were to visit “Googkle.com” they would be bombarded with various trojan viruses, spyware, and backdoors. The attack is aimed at users in a rush or that simple put in a type, as the “k” key is right next to the “l” key.
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LOL! haha! precision is everything.
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haha i tried it just for the sake of it and found that in firefox it tries over and over to install some IE toolbar from the russian site toolbarpartner.com. stupid thing.
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Dang…so all you have to do is visit that site?
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Why don’t the powers that be close down and prosecute these people who run sites like these.
Didn’t they convict the Melissa author and send him to jail?
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Or…. just get a mac…....
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That’s why I use the built-in search function in Firefox. Search Google without actually going to the site
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or just get a distro…
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damnit. You know posting the url makes me really want to go there to see. Grrr, gotta resisit the temptation, gotta resist…
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^^I went to it (what’ve i got to lose?), but they already brought down the site
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