Google Groups continues to be inundated with malware-pushing porn

As we�ve seen before, this continues to be a problem on Google Groups: Fake posts pushing porn that pushes malware (fake codecs).

A simple search of Google Groups using the search term �porn� shows just an extraordinary number of these sites (you can try it if you like, but realize the risk).

For example, here is a search looking for posts with the keywords �porn video� in the last month, showing 256,000 hits (warning: graphic content):

A spot-check shows that the vast majority of these are posts pushing malware (fake codecs).

And so on.

This really needs to get cleaned up. There�s a reason why so many of the threats that we see users getting infected with are invariably fake codec related.

Alex Eckelberry