New Google Service Could Hold Upward A Godsend To Scammers !

The Instant Previews service that Google launched final calendar week allows users to click on the magnifying drinking glass icon adjacent to a result’s championship or on its background inwards gild to come across a preview of that result.

There is no doubtfulness that this characteristic is real helpful when it comes to skimming through legitimate links, exactly a Websense researcher thinks that the service could examine to locomote counterproductive when it comes to avoiding poisoned search results.

"Our inquiry shows that the images shown inwards Instant Previews is non updated equally often equally anyone mightiness assume," says the researcher. "Therefore, nosotros don't intend this characteristic would assist users equally much inwards making an informed determination on judging whether a link is indeed malicious or not."

As you lot tin come across inwards the moving painting above, the offered links seems pretty legitimate - pertinent text, pictures - exactly if the users follow the link, they are redirected to a faux Firefox Update page

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