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Old 11-10-2007, 12:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation WARNING!!! Cn-spamsites steal your search queries!

As most of you have stumbled to the cn.-link & spam sites, I must tell you something.

Your google search queries may be sent to those sites for all to see.

Yeah. The following happened about month ago.
So.. I searched with a fairly complex phrase but google didn't have any results. Then, a week ago I tried again. My phrase was in the page description text. Example:

Quote:
Art Wallpapers Free
:: Dawnload FreeGsm free irdeto c dream lux mp3 player smart. Ru free raper videoclip zone alarm problem ... Usb infrared device driver free wallpaper smart movie free. ...
dawnload-free-wallpapers?gtoheavencom.cn/art-wallpapers-free.html - 11k -


Well, you get the idea. My phrase was quite complex so it couldn't be a coincidence. I then tested searching couple of times in Google with a word I made up, like "jinglyjanglylillypollypoppalinggalangg129". Bingo, some days later it was on a similar spam site. Absolutely not a coincidence.

It's a mystery to me how these queries got to those Spam-sites. I did a spyware scan and it revealed DosPop- and Softomate toolbars. I got rid of them quickly. I suspect the cause of these "redirects" was those toolbars, but I am not 100% sure.

Happened to anyone else? Someone please inform Google about this..
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