Google Misspelling, Googkle.com, Virus Carrier

Apr 27, 2005 - 9:10 am 1 — by
Filed Under Misc Google

A thread at Cre8asite Forums warns the members of a easy mistake thousands of people can be doing every day, which might cost them a virus on their machine. Basically, a domain name googkle.com (whois), takes you to a landing page with "at least 4 trojan/hijackers." It seems to be only prone to Internet Explorer browsers but that is a major concern for many people.

 

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