Poisoned Google Image Searches Becoming a Problem 262
Orome1 writes "If you are a regular user of Google's image search, you might have noticed that poisoned search results have practically become a common occurrence. Google has, of course, noticed this and does its best to mark the offending links as such, but they still have trouble when it comes to cleaning up its image search results."
Re:im glad im not the only one (Score:5, Funny)
Re:web 101: don't run unknown javascripts (Score:5, Funny)
It's 2011, there should not be anything a Javascript can do that is harmful to your computer.
It's 2011, where's my damn flying car?
It's held up in pre-production until they can fix a persistent Javascript bug.
Re:Use an alternative search. (Score:5, Funny)
Altavista, Ask and Bing have just been giving me more relevant search results lately.
Somewhat interestingly, and wildly offtopic, Altavista is powered by Yahoo, and Yahoo is powered by Bing, so you are really only using at most 2 search engines. (Ask also outsources to someone, but they don't say who, so it may very well be M!r0$0f+ as well).
And Microsoft copies Google's search results so in the end everyone is just using Google!
Re:im glad im not the only one (Score:5, Funny)
Re:im glad im not the only one (Score:5, Funny)
Dread Pirate Google: All right. Where is the trojan? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both click, and find out who is right... and who is hacked.
Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the trojan into his own link or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the trojan into his own link, because he would know that only a great fool would click on what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the link in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the link in front of me.
Dread Pirate Google: You've made your decision then?
Vizzini: Not remotely. Because Zeus comes from Eastern Europe, as everyone knows, and Eastern Europe is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the link in front of you.
Dread Pirate Google: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini: Wait till I get going! Where was I?
Dread Pirate Google: Eastern Europe.
Vizzini: Yes, Eastern Europe. And you must have suspected I would have known the trojan's origin, so I can clearly not choose the link in front of me.
Dread Pirate Google: You're just stalling now.
Vizzini: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my firewall, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the trojan in your own link, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the link in front of you. But, you've also bested my antivirus, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that root is hackable, so you would have put the trojan as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the link in front of me.
Dread Pirate Google: You're trying to phish me into giving away something. It won't work.
Vizzini: It has worked! You've given everything away! I know where the trojan is!
Dread Pirate Google: Then make your choice.
Vizzini: I will, and I choose-- What in the world can that be?
Dread Pirate Google: What? Where? I don't see anything.
Vizzini:Well, I- I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.
Dread Pirate Google: What's so funny?
Vizzini: I'll tell you in a minute. First, let's click. Me on my link, and you on yours.
(They both click.)
Dread Pirate Google: You guessed wrong.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched links when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when pwnage is on the line!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Ha ha ha--NO CARRIER
Re:im glad im not the only one (Score:2, Funny)
I myself have spent many years building up an immunity to these poisons.