Sites like Microsoft.com, IRS.gov, countless media outlets, magazines, universities, and other websites can be found in the search engines in this way. The hackers get these entries into Google by littering tens of thousands of blog comments, guestbook entries, and imaginary blog stories all around the Internet.
I’ve noticed a lot more infections recently, and not being a techie, I shy away from the sites that contain them.
There was recently a thread for the spyware guard2008. This seems to be the latest virus problem with not many solutions.
Only tangentially related;
I’m not sure why or how it happened, but a few days ago I suddenly lost CD and DVD drives. They wouldn’t show up under “my computer”, and Device Manager said the drivers were corrupted and couldn’t be loaded. Error 39. Even an external USB-fired CD drive wouldn’t work. Tried swapping a different physical drive into the PC, no effect. I found this sort of alarming, since, if the problem required reloaded the O/S, well, how do you plan to do that without having a functioning CD drive?
I ultimately found this site: http://sillydog.org/forum/sdp_59917.php
about six posts down resides the solution to the problem, July 05, 2005 post by Erdiko. A simple registry edit operation immediately fixed the problem!
WARNING: Create a registry backup point before you TOUCH ANYTHING in your registry.
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Cheers!
...oh, and Merry Christmas.