Spammers Attack Google Adwords

The next time you run a search on Google, you may want to pay attention to which results you click on from the paid results area. Microsoft Security experts say spammers are gaming Google’s Adwords program again in order to get malicious sites placed at the top of paid search results.

Some search results, listed to the right of organic search results in Google, contain links purporting to take searchers to the subject they are looking for, but redirect them to sites that infect their PCs instead.

In addition, the malware on those sites has been tweaked to evade detection by many antivirus applications, experts said.

If the link redirects to a site with malicious code, the tactic would appear to violate Google’s own policies regarding AdWords, such as not allowing URLs in AdWords results to redirect to other URLs.

Yet another floor in the ever expanding Google Adwords program. Surprisingly Google had no comment on this situation. Beware…

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