If a user makes searches for a suspicious file name on Google or Yahoo! and there is not anything to be found, then generally it is assumed that the file is most likely nothing to be concerned about. However, the rencent uncovering of vulnerabilities in the famous search engines have made it mandatory for the users to be highly cautious, as a blank result on a top search engine is potentially to point out it being pernicious.
Researchers at Prevx recently claimed to have exposed new flaws that have been generating tribulations for computer users who are using Internet search engines to find info regarding latent spyware. Prevx researchers say that the being of certain nasty spyware programs stop users, whose PCs have been bug-ridden, from utilizing famous search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN, to find a cure, letting spyware infectivity flourish more gamely amongst consumers. Check out the malicious techniques uncovered by Prevx:
