Friday, July 21, 2006

Google Tool Bar Seekers Tricked into Downloading Botnet Backdoor

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Computer hackers built a fake Google Tool Bar website to trick people into downloading a malicious program that could turn machines into "zombies," a US Internet security firm said.

E-mails containing Internet links to the bogus website and invitations to download Google tool bar software began circulating this week, according to SurfControl of northern California.

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