{"id":4791,"date":"2011-07-21T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/google-takes-steps-to-stop-malware\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:18:00","slug":"google-takes-steps-to-stop-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/google-takes-steps-to-stop-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Takes Steps to Stop Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Google Online Security Blog, they recently<br \/>\nfound some unusual search traffic. Upon investigation, they determined the<br \/>\ncomputers were infected with malware, which is malicious software. Google has<br \/>\nnot said what he unusual search traffic was, however they have made an effort<br \/>\nto notify the users about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/\" title=\"fraud prevention systems\">fraud prevention systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The infected users send traffic to Google through proxies.<br \/>\nWhat Google is doing to combat the malware is putting a notification at the top<br \/>\nof their browser when these infected computers come to Googles site. While not<br \/>\nfool proof because there are concerns the malicious companies will mimic the<br \/>\nnotification, it is at least an attempt to combat the cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p>In the notification, there is a link that will take the user<br \/>\nto fix the situation. Google cautions to only click on links that you are<br \/>\nfamiliar with and can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/resources\/\" title=\"verify identity\">verify identity<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor more details on the malware, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/using-data-to-protect-people-from.html\">Google<br \/>\nOnline Security Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Google Online Security Blog, they recently<br \/>\nfound some unusual search traffic. Upon investigation, they determined the<br \/>\ncomputers were infected with malware, which is malicious software. Google has<br \/>\nnot said what he unusual search traffic was, however they have made an effort<br \/>\nto notify the users about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">fraud prevention systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}