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• Friday, July 28th, 2006

Google Computer hackers built a fake Google Tool Bar website to trick people into downloading a malicious program that could turn machines into “zombies”. Email messages containing Internet links to the bogus website and invitations to download Google tool bar software began circulating last week, according to SurfControl of California. The phony website was a replica of the real one provided by internet search juggernaut based in Mountain View, California.

Instead of the promised tool bar software, the site duped people into downloading a “trojan”, malicious computer coding hidden inside a seemingly harmless offering. The “malware” was designed to let hackers take control of infected computers via the Internet.

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  1. zou says:

    Christmas is comming soon, I start usually in the summer, to be sure to get a good deals. I want to make happy my familly this year. I would like to buy a tiffany

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