Google SpyWare and Virus Error

[teseo]

Few days ago i was like getting errors from google telling me that i was having spy wares on my system or a virus and didn't allow me to search anything, i had nothing wrong on my PC.

dunno if you guys had posted anything like that b4 but I'm new

Ever got this error message?

[cvrk3]

nope! i never had such error!

[lizard]

my parents had it on there comp, its the spyware doing that, get spybot search and destroy

http://spybot.info


the error has nothing to do with google

[geekerati]

Teseo, you need to run a scan of your HDD to remove what ever it is your PC is infected with.

I received the same nasty page while I was doing a query about Loki Torrent yesterday in response to Lizard's post, turns out, I had two trojans and a new type of virus on my machine! I'm running Nod 32 and Micro$ofts anti-spyware solution, too. I had to pay a visit to Trend Micro's 'Housecall' to clean my HDD. My machine was infected with a java/Femad.A trojan, a low risk loader program and a virus called the NewHeur_PE virus.

Here is the virus log:

Time Module Object Name Virus Action User Info
3/9/2005 9:40:14 AM IMON file http:/affic2cash.biz/loaders/loader1/Counter.class Java/Femad.A trojan quarantined - connection terminated
3/9/2005 9:39:50 AM IMON file http:/affic2cash.biz/loaders/loader1/Counter.class Java/Femad.A trojan quarantined - connection terminated
3/9/2005 9:39:25 AM IMON file http:/affic2cash.biz/loaders/loader1...account=adv367 probably unknown NewHeur_PE virus quarantined -

So, in the end Google warned me that I had a virus and trojan, which is pretty cool. I'm still trying to figure out were it was that I picked up this $h17 !




3/10/2005
Google Fights Viruses and Automated Query Tools

Two days ago I wrote an entry on a forum thread at WebmasterWorld about Google Blocking Rank Checkers. Since then, it was features on WebmasterWorld, primarily because GoogleGuy replied to it with the following comment:

That page originally started because when someone has a virus or a trojaned machine, they often don’t realize that their machine may be sending queries to Google without them asking.

Recently, we’ve started to improve the software, and it can also detect lots of things like rank checking and other automatic queries to Google. Of course, we don’t show the message to everybody that comes onto our radar, but our new software looks pretty good at detecting programmatic queries. If you’re using WebPosition or other software that sends queries to Google from a program, I’m not surprised if you’re going over a threshold where your queries are on the radar.

If you do see this message, I would recommend not sending so many queries to Google–the volume or type of queries are unusual enough that it’s attracting greater scrutiny from us. If you avoid sending queries to Google from a program, you’ll be as right as rain.

Since then, others have been noticing this occur. To see what you would see when Google sends you back this remark, click here or view image. A thread at Search Engine Watch Forums discusses the same issue but this time with a simple search on +"powered by phpbb”. Organic-Rankings.com has an other image with a image security code requested by Google here.

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Edited: The NewHeur_PE virus turns out to be a false positive.