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Google fixes Malicious redirects to malware sites from it's search results

 Good news = Google has filtered out these malicious sites from it's indexes  
 Bad news = These malicious sites are still out there on the Internet

Google fixes Malicious redirects to malware sites from it's search results

  The malicious redirecting sites are still present and folks need to be cautious at all times.  The improved filtering should help reduce the likelihood of hostile sites being returned on the 1st few pages of a search.

Google expunges malware sites from search results
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9049820

QUOTE: Google Inc. has purged its index of the thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases, researchers confirmed today.

"They look gone to us," said Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software, the company that broke the news Monday of a massive, coordinated campaign by attackers to spread malware through search results on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and other sites.