 |
 |
||||
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
FAKE GOOGLE TOOLBARS GO PHISHING.Navigation: Main page Author: Charny, Ben Section: SOLUTIONS: THE LOOKOUT
An Internet security specialist says a new threat involves malicious links to bogus Google software that spreads via IM and Internet Relay Chat. The threat appears to be a variety of the infamous CoolWebSearch browser-hijacking phishing scheme, according to Foster City, California-based FaceTime Security Labs. In these cases, IM users unwittingly download a rogue Google toolbar, which is installed in their Web browsers. The only working feature on the fake toolbar saves credit card details, according to Christopher Boyd, FaceTime's security research manager. A host of other features, including one to "enable pornographic ads," do not work. ~~~~~~~~ By Ben Charny in the Fair Use guidelines of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act. info [at] singlearticles.com Powered by CommonSense |
THE INVISIBLE MITT. Secrets of a Gay Governor. Google Must Provide Sites, But Not Search Terms. |
||||||
 |
 |
||||||