FYI...
- http://www.websense.com/securitylabs...php?BlogID=116
Mar 26 2007 ~ "Search Engine Poisoning is a topic that we have have researched at some length. We discussed the topic briefly in an October blog post: Search Engine Typosquatting*. Our previous research focused on malicious URLs in search engine results from misspelled search terms; it was far less common to discover malicious content for legitimate search terms. In early March, a report from Sunbelt** demonstrated Microsoft Windows Live Search™ Italy returning exploit sites for extremely common search terms. Doing some additional research of our own, we performed searches for the names of financial companies, well-known banks, and lenders. The results were alarming. Many of the URLs in the search results linked to malicious sites capable of silently compromising the visitor..."
(More detail and screenshots at the URL above.)
* http://www.websense.com/securitylabs....php?BlogID=88
** http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007...-searches.html