Careful! Converting currency on Google can lead to malware

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/20/6683910-careful-converting-currency-on-google-can-lead-to-malware

By Rosa Golijan
5/20/2011

Another day, another way for you to pick up malware. Today's scary corner of the Internet? Currency conversion searches on Google.

The folks from Sophos Labs report that there appear to be a great deal of malicious links among the results for currency conversion-themed searches on Google.
We tested out the example they provided — a query which attempted to convert 215 Euro to dollars — as well as several similar conversions and found that the results were just as Sophos Labs described them

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