grelmar - 4:23 pm on Dec 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

There was a virus earlier this year that used Google queries as part of a DDOS attack against Microsoft (can't remember the name of it).

If you go to F-Secure's weblog, it looks as if it took G 7 hours from when they were first notified of the problem, to when they started blocking the query using the query string and the useragent profile.

7 hours.

When was the last time any other outfit had that kind of response time? Overall, I'm marking how G handled it as a win for them, in terms of security response time.