Fake Google Alerts
28Oct2008 Filed under: Security Author: jerangI signed up for google alerts over a year ago now and I absolutely love it. It can be used to:
- track use of your name all over the web
- track spammers by signing up for alerts on your domain
- keep track of specific words in a news feed
- and much more…
Recently I have been getting numerous dubious alerts for some topics I signed up for. For example the last weird alerts that came in had my name linked to – http://mand-s.v-i.bij.pl/jeffrey-a-cupp.html; Clicked on that and I got the infamous “Windows Antivirus Scan”.
Most of “these nicely put together links” are full of spyware and malware and am beginning to wonder if there’s a way to stop it. Researching….
Anyone else experience this?
- Tags: google, google alerts, hacking, Security, spam
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Ruth Rinehart December 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Yes, I’ve got the same problem. I’ve got 6 google alerts, and yesterday, I got one of those fake spyware ads (it routed me through about 5 websites before settling on what I considered a fake screen, scanning my hard drive, telling me how many problem files I had). This morning, I got two more of these fake alerts. Yuk! Is Google trying to prevent this?
jerang December 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
@Ruth I sent google a complaint; wrote me back and said they are looking into it. I seem to be getting a lot more alerts lately not sure if this is related. Will update the blog if I hear anything from them.
To notify the google alerts team, use this URL: http://www.google.com/support/alerts/bin/request.py
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