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Data-stealing malware
2011-07-21
In a post made public earlier today on the official Google blog, Google security engineer Damien Menscher wrote the search giant had spotted numerous PCs infected by spyware conversing with Google's servers. Menscher explained that they discovered bizarre patterns of activity and cooperated with security engineers at a few firms that were sending the altered traffic to pinpoint the cause. It seemed the PCs in question were infected by evil software, or malicious software, that makes a P.C send traffic to Google thru a low number of proxies servers that sit between you and Google. Now in a position to spot when your traffic is coming from one of those proxies, Google warns users they're possibly infected if it sees your requests coming from those servers.
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