tedster - 12:24 am on May 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

The bad guys (and I mean the really bad guys) are pretty successful at getting their malware URLs into Google's most popular search results, according to a Symantec study.

On average on any given day, 7.3% of links are malicious in the top 70 results for top search terms The most poisoned search term resulted in 68% of links leading to malicious pages in the first 70 results Almost all of the malicious URLs redirect to a fake antivirus page... They have an automated infrastructure that is able to automatically collect the latest, most popular search trends and poison the results, the company [Symantec] said. [pcworld.com...]

Looks like these bozos have found a working business plan.