Google searches contain malicious links

Google SERP's show malicious URL links:

Cybercrooks continue to abuse the web, boosting their ability to produce what's called search engine optimization poisoning so that individuals making use of search engines such as Google's increasingly are ending up with choices that are dangerous malware-laden URL links.

Some 22.4% of Google searches done since June produced malicious URLs, typically leading to fake antivirus sites or malware-laden downloads as part of the top 100 search results, according to the Websense 2010 Threat Report published Tuesday.

That's in comparison to 13.7% of Google searches having that outcome in the latter half of 2009, says Patrik Runald, Websense senior manager of security research. The rising level of SEO poisoning...shows that cybercriminals "are fine-tuning their activities and getting better at this," Runald says. ...

In general, according to the report, the number of malicious sites overall, that is, the number of direct links with some form of malicious content, is up 111% in 2010 over 2009. [Date: 10 November 2010; Source: http://news.techworld.com/security/3248172/]