Not long after Prince William and Kate Middleton exchanged vows on April 29, a 1981 wedding portrait of the groom's late mother, Princess Diana, appeared as one of the top three images for people typing the most popular search term on Google that morning: "royal wedding coverage." But the link was a trip wire. Fraud artists had finagled a malicious website through Google's algorithm. The link led to a hacked page on a Web comic book called Kiwiblitz.com, which redirected the browser to another site—one with a domain name from an obscure Australian island territory and hosted in Sweden. That site displayed a realistic-looking program called "XP Anti-Spyware" that issued bogus warnings—Your Computer Is Infected! A few clicks led to a purported solution, for $59.95: a download of a fix that didn't actually exist.
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机译:威廉王子(William Prince)和凯特·米德尔顿(Kate Middleton)于4月29日交换誓言后不久,1981年新郎已故母亲戴安娜王妃的结婚照出现,成为当日早上在Google上输入最受欢迎搜索词的人的三张图片之一:婚礼报道。”但是链接是绊线。欺诈艺术家通过Google的算法找到了恶意网站。该链接导致一本名为Kiwiblitz.com的网络漫画书上的一个被黑页面,该漫画书将浏览器重定向到另一个网站-一个站点,该站点的域名来自澳大利亚的一个模糊的岛国,并托管在瑞典。该站点显示了一个看起来逼真的程序,称为“ XP Anti-Spyware”,该程序发出了虚假警告-您的计算机已感染!只需单击几下即可获得一个声称的解决方案,价格为59.95美元:下载了实际上不存在的修复程序。
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