ackthbbft Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200657 Share Posted February 16, 2010 So I picked up a rogue antivirus trojan today, despite being logged into Windows under a guest account (which should not have allowed it to install). Fortunately, MalwareBytes was able to clean it much more easily this time than the first one, which required me to reimage my drive.This is actually the second time in as many months I've picked up this type of malware due to my AVG claiming a search link was safe, but wasn't. What really pisses me off, is that this time, I was doing a simple search to look for a review of a kitchen appliance, and the top link returned by Google (retrevo.com) is what infected me.Does Google have any kind of feedback system that allows us to report these links? Businesses pay them to be put at the top of a search, so they basically paid Google to infect me, the way I see it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yardbird Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200662 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Heres a contact link: http://www.google.com/contact/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spg SCOTT Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200841 Share Posted February 16, 2010 I have had this discussion before, in another forum, you report it, and the next day a different link is back there...All google seem to care about is the money...Report a bad search result to google:http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=16162 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200887 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Unfortune to say, Good luck with that, I dont really think they will do anything about it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200918 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Hi there, maybe you can contact http://stopbadware.org Because malware is at the top of google, it does not necessarily mean that Google has approved this.The page might have been hacked, or Blackhat SEO was used to push this site at the top of Google's seearch results.Hope this helps . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryFCM Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200962 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Reporting badness to Google is completely useless (though continue doing such by all means). Their sites (search engine, blogspot, gmail) have been sources of malware for as long as I can remember. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted February 16, 2010 ID:200978 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Be super careful of "Sponsored links" and "sponsored ads" and the like by Google... Sponsored ads in general can contain nasties... I'm glad that Mbam was able to get you cleaned up though Did a second scan come out clean? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TeMerc Posted February 16, 2010 Staff ID:200988 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Reporting badness to Google is completely useless (though continue doing such by all means). Their sites (search engine, blogspot, gmail) have been sources of malware for as long as I can remember. I concur. Google sits on their hands 95% of the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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