News has come out that some Blogs hosted by Google are being used to trick users into installing Adware and spyware. It should be noted that it is not Google that is doing this, it is rather users of their blogging service that are using the tactics, presumably to earn advertising dollars. The blogs use tricks to get people to click on a button that authorises the downloading and running of the ad/spyware. Such tricks include showing a “next blog” button, or claiming to be a necessary Windows or IE update of some sort. You can read the full story here. Google are said to be aware of the problem and are “looking into it”. It should also be noted that thus far, all of these spyware, browser hijacking problems only effect Internet Explorer. If you use Firefox, you shouldn’t be effected.
