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The first Google search result often leads to a virus

Posted on October 11, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 18.39 • 2021-10-11

PUBLIC DEFENDER

By Brian Livingston

The top search result in Google is all too often a link to a website that’s been hacked to infect visitors’ devices with a virus.

The culprit behind these infections is called “Gootloader,” a descendant of years-old malware that just keeps getting worse on Google — the only search engine that’s being targeted.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.39.0 (2021-10-11).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.39.F (2021-10-11).

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