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Russian sites are attempting
to link to other sites and download Viruses
There are a series of
Russian websites (*.ru) that have placed website names
in the description meta tags of their sites, so search
engines will pick them up. These sites are
heavily objectionable, you can't get out of
them, and they try to download a virus.
If someone gets this site when they are expecting a
church or business, it can cause an incredible amount of
problems, especially if their anti-virus is not current.
If someone
uses MSN and searched for a website, it can show up, but
it may be way down the list. If they put quotes ("sitename.com")
it pulls it up higher. Click on this link for more
information and how I found one of these sites when I
searched for Microsoft.com.
It kind of
takes the perfect storm for this to happen since the
person has to search for the website and not just the
business name. So it the business is Acme & Co, and the
website is
www.acmeco.com, they need to search on ameco.com. At
first it seemed to only be Live Search, which is MSN,
but today I found some in Yahoo and Google.
Test it
Yourself
If you want to
check your site, go to msn.com and search for "yourwebsite.com,"
(Use quotes around your website name) look at the very
bottom line of the search results and see if the link is
something ".ru." DO NOT
CLICK ON THAT LINK, IT WILL EAT UP YOUR COMPUTER!
The further down the list, the better
off you are and with Microsoft I had to add front.ru
(seems to be the most common site) and below is what
sowed up, the actual links re removed.
With Live
Search I used "Microsoft.com" front.ru
This is what
was on page 3:
So what can
you do about it? There is no quick fix, but there are
things that can be done and if you did this test and it
show up on the 2-3 pages give me a call (865-693-0900
ext-11) and we can discuss it. What needs to be done is
have an overall strategy, that goes beyond your website,
that will force something like this further down the
list. I have sent information to Live Search and I am
sure this threat will pass, but it will come back again
and when it does you need to be better prepared.
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