Has Google been hacked?
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From: Mike T. on 5 Apr 2006 13:23 "Jim Strathmeyer" <strathWHATEVERIGETENOUGHSPAMANYWAYS(a)ipass.net> wrote in message news:FaCdnS-FLemNcq7ZRVn-rw(a)adelphia.com... > In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. <noway(a)nohow.not> wrote: >> It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave > > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 > > Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having > the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you > have some sort of malware. > > -- > Jim Strathmeyer OK, well my antivirus software was updated today. I ran a full system scan with nothing found. I updated ad-aware with the latest definitions today. It found a few cookies and deleted them. Nothing else was found. I cleared ALL stored information out of firefox, rebooted the system and tried again. Again I got mostly results with urls ending in .pl http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=30&sa=N I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave
From: Mike T. on 5 Apr 2006 13:26 >> >> Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having >> the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you >> have some sort of malware. >> > I agree 110% with this malware issue. Anything's possible. But my antivirus software has completed two sweeps of the entire system (with today's definition files) and has found nothing. Ad-aware (with today's definition files) reports nothing. The system sits behind a hardware and software firewall. It is about as secure as any windows computer could be, which is to say, NOT VERY. :( -Dave
From: Kev on 5 Apr 2006 13:34 > http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=30&sa=N > > I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the > results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave Google UK works fine for the same search. See http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=history+of+milk+chocolate&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images Kev
From: JAD on 5 Apr 2006 13:41 google toolbar installed? you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies check your 'hosts' file "Mike T." <noway(a)nohow.not> wrote in message news:4433fd1c$0$64664$892e7fe2(a)authen.yellow.readfreenews.net... > > "Jim Strathmeyer" <strathWHATEVERIGETENOUGHSPAMANYWAYS(a)ipass.net> wrote in > message news:FaCdnS-FLemNcq7ZRVn-rw(a)adelphia.com... > > In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. <noway(a)nohow.not> wrote: > >> It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave > > > > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 > > > > Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having > > the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you > > have some sort of malware. > > > > -- > > Jim Strathmeyer > > OK, well my antivirus software was updated today. I ran a full system scan > with nothing found. I updated ad-aware with the latest definitions today. > It found a few cookies and deleted them. Nothing else was found. I cleared > ALL stored information out of firefox, rebooted the system and tried again. > Again I got mostly results with urls ending in .pl > > http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=30&sa=N > > I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the > results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave > >
From: Mike T. on 5 Apr 2006 13:52
> Google UK works fine for the same search. See > http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=history+of+milk+chocolate&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images > > Kev No it doesn't. You didn't click through far enough. Most of the results of your own search that you ran are off-topic, and the urls are hosted in Poland. -Dave http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%22history+of+milk+chocolate%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=20&sa=N (this is an example of a few pages down in your own search results) |