Google Warns Of Malware Redirecting To Its Search Results

Do a search on Google, and you might get an unexpected surprise. A big notice at the top of your results warning that your computer has been infected with malware.
Here’s an example of how it looks:

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What malware? Produced by whom? Google’s not giving any details there yet, simply blogging:

This particular malware causes infected computers to send traffic to Google through a small number of intermediary servers called “proxies.” We hope that by taking steps to notify users whose traffic is coming through these proxies, we can help them update their antivirus software and remove the infections.

The blog post itself has the fairly innocuous title of “Using data to protect people from malware.”
This is malware so threatening, so menacing that Google does unprecedented above-the-search results warnings, and Google describes it as an exercise in data analysis? How about: “Warning: Your Computer May Be Infected & Here’s How To Fix It.”
The post also doesn’t mention that the malware is restricted to Windows computers, nor does the help page make this clear. Indeed, the “fix” that the help file talks about is to run an anti-virus program. It doesn’t say exactly what malware that software should detect, if any.
The help page does provide, if you drill down, some guidance that your Windows host file will be changed to apparently reference the IP address of 74.125.45.100 along with some others.
Ironically, doing a search for the IP address quickly suggests that Google is concerned about “Windows Protection Suite,” which one site describes as a fake anti-virus software program.
The IP address, by the way, appears to be Google’s own. The program, I’m guessing, is routing the traffic eventually to Google after monitoring it or logging it for whatever reasons it has.
If you get one of these notices on a Windows computer and don’t already run an anti-virus program, well, that’s as good as reason as any. But it would sure be better if Google provided some more details.

Source : http://searchengineland.com/google-warns-of-malware-redirecting-to-its-search-listings-86426

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