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Hacking notifications in Google search results
Sunday, 19 December 2010 23:01

Google warned the seargoogle_logoch engines users about websites, which enter the range of query results that were probably compromised by hackers.

For web sites that Google considers have been hacked, there will be a special warning for search engine users. It will pop ups and the users will get a choice to return to list of query results for more info.

Google establishes that on the basis of some factors and automatic detection occurs in the process of indexing the content of the web resource.   When that happens, Google will try as well to keep in touch with webmasters to warn them, if they don’t know about the hazard.

When the problem is solved the warning won’t pop up any more. Google will check if this is really so. Webmasters get the opportunity to ask for review of the website which was compromised.

Google gives the warnings of the same kind the websites, which are considered by Google infected with malware.

Though Google tries to protect its users, all the same they must be constantly reminded to make use of common sense and be vigilant when clicking on search results and web advertisement.

A week before cybercriminals made ad networks from Microsoft and Google infected, putting ads on them. When visitors clicked on them they were transferred to web sites that had a malware damaging PCs, in accordance with a security consultancy assertion.