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care when accessing google
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highway of diamonds
2005-05-05 23:55:59 UTC
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There's a website www.googkle.com which preys on the mis-spelling of the
famous search engine- Beware -accessing this site WILL infect your PC
with trojans, backdoor trojans and spyware.

More info here:

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/googkle.shtml

Please do not try it out of curiosity. I'm trying to get more
information and if it *is* a hoax I'll get back to you, but reliaable
sources tell me it isn't.
Andy
2005-05-06 16:28:09 UTC
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Post by highway of diamonds
There's a website www.googkle.com which preys on the mis-spelling of the
famous search engine- Beware -accessing this site WILL infect your PC
with trojans, backdoor trojans and spyware.
Well, I visited this site and my PC has NOT been infected...

Andy
PJ
2005-05-07 23:52:54 UTC
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Post by Andy
Post by highway of diamonds
There's a website www.googkle.com which preys on the mis-spelling of the
famous search engine- Beware -accessing this site WILL infect your PC
with trojans, backdoor trojans and spyware.
Well, I visited this site and my PC has NOT been infected...
Andy
Looks like the site has been taken out.

PJ
Ian Cox
2005-05-08 15:32:53 UTC
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Post by Andy
Post by highway of diamonds
There's a website www.googkle.com which preys on the mis-spelling of the
famous search engine- Beware -accessing this site WILL infect your PC
with trojans, backdoor trojans and spyware.
Well, I visited this site and my PC has NOT been infected...
Do you always touch wet paint? ;O)
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Ian Cox
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Remove my hat to email me.
Andy
2005-05-08 17:01:25 UTC
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Post by Ian Cox
Do you always touch wet paint? ;O)
LOL no I don't. It was more that the OP was asserting
"accessing this site WILL infect your PC" and I wanted to
show this as incorrect.

Not all of us run insecure web browsers on insecure platforms :-)

Andy
highway of diamonds
2005-05-08 17:56:42 UTC
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Post by Andy
Post by Ian Cox
Do you always touch wet paint? ;O)
LOL no I don't. It was more that the OP was asserting
"accessing this site WILL infect your PC" and I wanted to
show this as incorrect.
"Not all of us run insecure web browsers on insecure platforms :-)"

No they don't Andy, some are just end-users with limited knowledge of
computers, protection and *other* operating systems.

The posting was worded as such because I sent the same as email to
contacts in my address book who are just that, computer users.

I was dissappointed in that you didn't point out in your first post that
you were using a secure web-browser on a secure platform - did you not
think that was relevant?

R.

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