1Google Removes Malware Sites, But Doesn’t Admit There Was a Problem

29 November 2007

Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to rank malicious malware sites high in the results pages, it seems that Google has at least taken steps to remove the offending sites from their indexes. However, when questioned about the attacks, Google failed to acknowledge that there was a problem or that they had rectified it.

Researchers from Sunbelt Software who first exposed the spammy SERP attacks said today, “They appear to be zapped.” Sunbelt also said, “Google did confirm yesterday with us that they were working on the case, and they are good about nailing this stuff.”

Interestingly, Google themselves have thus far refused to confirm or deny that they have purged their index of the malware hosting sites, or that they even existed in the first place. (more…)