Has Google been hacked?

"Jim Strathmeyer" wrote in
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In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. wrote:
It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave

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Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having
the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you
have some sort of malware.

--
Jim Strathmeyer

OK, well my antivirus software was updated today. I ran a full system scan
with nothing found. I updated ad-aware with the latest definitions today.
It found a few cookies and deleted them. Nothing else was found. I cleared
ALL stored information out of firefox, rebooted the system and tried again.
Again I got mostly results with urls ending in .pl

http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=30&sa=N

I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the
results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave

Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having
the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you
have some sort of malware.

I agree 110% with this malware issue.

Anything's possible. But my antivirus software has completed two sweeps of
the entire system (with today's definition files) and has found nothing.
Ad-aware (with today's definition files) reports nothing. The system sits
behind a hardware and software firewall. It is about as secure as any
windows computer could be, which is to say, NOT VERY. -Dave

http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=30&sa=N

I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the
results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave

Google UK works fine for the same search. See
http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=...s=&safe=images

Kev

google toolbar installed?
you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies
check your 'hosts' file


"Mike T." wrote in message
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"Jim Strathmeyer" wrote in
message ...
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mike T. wrote:
It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670

Because of this, and the fact that other people don't seem to be having
the same experience that you have, the most likely solution is that you
have some sort of malware.

--
Jim Strathmeyer

OK, well my antivirus software was updated today. I ran a full system
scan
with nothing found. I updated ad-aware with the latest definitions today.
It found a few cookies and deleted them. Nothing else was found. I
cleared
ALL stored information out of firefox, rebooted the system and tried
again.
Again I got mostly results with urls ending in .pl


http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=30&sa=N

I did get some relevant results, but it is really ODD that most of the
results are off-topic, and hosted in Poland? -Dave

Google UK works fine for the same search. See
http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=...s=&safe=images

Kev

No it doesn't. You didn't click through far enough. Most of the results of
your own search that you ran are off-topic, and the urls are hosted in
Poland. -Dave

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N

(this is an example of a few pages down in your own search results)

"JAD" wrote in message
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google toolbar installed?
you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies
check your 'hosts' file


It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on Google
UK and got the same results. -Dave

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N

The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer, on
the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and
hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any
software on my equipment. -Dave

Mike T. wrote:
I just ran several searches on google, from their "advanced" search page,
and NONE of them gave me any useful links at all.

The last search I ran was for exact phrase "the history of milk chocolate".
I got 184 totally OFF-topic results, which included (my favorite) "used
ultralight aircraft for sale in Australia". Oh, and all the links end in
.pl

It kind of looks like Google has been hacked. -Dave

I just tried it and, although the first two results weren't relevant,
the others following them were. None of them ended in .pl. You'll get
better results if you don't try to search for an exact phrase. I only
search for an exact phrase if I'm looking for the title of a book,
song, movie, etc. or a quote.

"Mike T." wrote in message
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"JAD" wrote in message
...
google toolbar installed?
you physically looked in the temp folders and deleted ALL cookies
check your 'hosts' file


It has nothing to do with my computer. Someone else ran a search on
Google
UK and got the same results. -Dave




Ok mike But just so you know, Just because 1 2 3 people that run
google UK and got some polish results doesn't constitute a 'hack'.
Furthermore if 1000 people have accessed google UK, and its a 'cookie'
""hack"", then all 1000 people would have been 'hacked'(cookie dropped) and
that has everything to do with ;your; rig as the misdirect is sitting in a
cookie on your harddrive in your machine. That being said, if you cleared it
manually, ya just should have said so..










http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=+%2...&start=20&sa=N

The above is not a search that I ran, it was run on a different computer,
on
the UK google web site. Note that most of the results are off-topic, and
hosted in Poland. It's not my equipment, and it's certainly not any
software on my equipment. -Dave

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:37:25 -0400, Mike T. wrote:


Odd. I just ran the search again. AGAIN I got mostly off-topic links,
most of which the url ends in ".pl". Again, has google been hacked?
-Dave

http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22h...&start=40&sa=N

I get it too on Linux FWIW. google.co.uk is OK

Google hasnt been 'hacked' but I think the domain .turek.pl has this
phrase in its HTTP Headers and somehow fooled Google. By having the sites
all refer to one another or something...


Lordy

Stan Horwitz wrote:
You need to improve your searching skills.
Try searching for ...
milk+chocolate+history
and include the + symbols.

That's wrong. The plus signs don't make a difference for the above
search in google.

"By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search
terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms."

The only time that plus signs matter is if you specifically want to
search on "common words" that Google has ignored, like "the", "a",
"where", "how". Moreover, you need to have a space before each plus
sign.

"If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can
include it by putting a "+" sign in front of it. (Be sure to include a
space before the "+" sign.)"

http://www.google.com/support/bin/st...tml&ctx=basics