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Google Search is Broken

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I was searching this morning when I started to notice warnings that the site I am being directed to might contain malware. I did a news search and sure enough, I am seeing Google Screenshotresults in thailand and on a site called Neowin reporting the same thing.  Here is a screenshot of what I am seeing searching site:google.com. Notice how their entire site might harm your computer. 

This is definitely embarrassing for Google. People can’t use their product, it will drive people to alternative search engines, at least while it is broken. I imagine it will be fixed sometime today but it the meantime, you can use the old standby’s of www.live.com, www.yahoo.com,  or www.altavista.com.

 

Edit: Fixed now at 10:29am EST

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Conficker Virus

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A new worm is making the rounds to machines which haven’t been kept up to date with security updates. The worm works because of an exploit which was patched in October’s Out-of-Band patch , which I blogged about.

To ensure you don’t pick this up this new worm, make sure you are up to date on patches and have an updated antivirus on your machines.

For more information check out the following links:

SANS Institute – http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5671&rss

Microsoft® Malware Protection Center – http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/archive/2009/01/13/msrt-released-today-addressing-conficker-and-banload.aspx

Microsoft Help and Support – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007