Google involved in spreading XP Antivirus 2009 and Vista Antivirus 2009

As my last post made a hudge interest, I made a quick research regarding those trojan which has so wide spreaded.

Almost all of my search keywords are “How to remove XP Antivirus 2008“

About removing of the trojan I have written before. Write to me if you have more questions or problems – I will try to help with advices.

If I dont know something, I ask Google.

And the irony in this case is Google told me that Google is was spreading malware via its AdWords links.

If you don’t know - AdWords is an advertising program of Google. They get paid to put ads in some pages and in main search results page too.

Some of those advertising links belonged to hackers. They had redirected the user who had clicked on their link to a trojan downloader page. This way many web users become infected with viruses just surfing the web.

The good news is Google have identified and canceled AdWords accounts which displayed malicious ads re-directing users to hacker sites.

More info can find at the official Google AdWords blog 

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2007/04/protecting-your-security-online.html

Google server error

google-server-error

Today it happened to me!

I have never seen before Google Server having troubles. Have you?

While I was updaring my site settings, received this message: “Google Server Error”

Google Presents the Virtual World ‘Lively’

Google  yesterday launched a new virtual world called ‘Lively’ .

You can check it at www.lively.com

Their idea is to make social Webs more dynamic.
“The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the Web,” said Google engineering manager Niniane Wang in a blog post. “We hope you will use the product to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the Web.”

Using the Lively environment requires Windows ,  Internet Explorer or Firefox, and the Lively browser plug-in which is downloaded at first visit the site.

Lively is a Google Labs project that is still in Beta version.

Google lively

Internet explorer cannot open the internet site. Operation aborted

I receive this error message many times a day as I browse the Internet. I use IE6.

I did not paid attention, just reloaded the page to solve problem.

Please see the next post with solution of the problem /edited./

Yesterday  I decided to search the web for similar problems.

I was surprised to find out that it is a Microsoft IE bug, they recognised this oh their page.

But on MS pagebug  is only description and advices for the  web developers how to avoid this on their pages using CSS and JavaScripts.  No single word about IE users – what causes the problem. 

I found many web pages commenting this problem. But there were same programming solutions for developers.

Even Google mail can cause this error message! You can check this  by visiting htpp://mail.google.com/mail/ . If you have my IE problem, the error message will appear.

The error message makes many people to change their browsers with FF.

This seems to be one of the worst MS bugs ever!

So for my great regret I have to say – NO solution for this problem for now. /edited/

Just wait for Microsoft to release some update for it.

Edit: see the next post with solution!

New Flavor of Google Trends

Google released the new version of  Google trends . It is for determining the popularity of sertain search words for a given period. Google trends information is updated every hour.  

The data from Google Trends is available for geo regions, languages and cities. There is also a nice graph where is shown the keywords value. It is possible also an .csv file output.

The new is websities compare feature. You can write one ore more sities and compare their search activity.