Phishing on Google Image Search - t3.gstatic.com/images
by XFiiire - 7/14/10 3:46 AM
Hello,
Every single time I search any phrase on Google Images on Firefox (or Internet Explorer - but Firefox is my main browser), my Kaspersky Internet Security alerts me to Phishing Attacks -
this is one example
blocked: phishing address http://t3.gstatic.com/images
URL: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:oFwPaewhXJcegM:http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll176/yescomm/hello/hello020.gif
Hence the apparent phishing attack seems to operate by taking the images shown from the search and then turning it into what Kaspersky finds as a phishing attack - those images (on the browser) do not show up - they become a blank white box normally with a small red X in the top left hand corner
This started after visiting a dodgy website which offered me one of those rogue spyware/antivirus softwares - my normal procedure is just to abort firefox and upon the session restore simply untick the box for the "rogue" website - although this seems to have failed
So far I have scanned with Malwarebytes and found Rogue.RegSweep - although quarantining and deleting this has not solved the problem
At the moment I am scanning my whole system using Trend Micro Housecall - although I am still unsure as to whether it fill find anything on my system and whether if it will solve the problem
What should I do?
Note: I have done one system restore to the 13th of July (the latest one I had to restore to) - previous to this date I did not have the problem
Note: When using Firefox's Private Browsing Mode and searching Google Images - the problem does not occur - Kaspersky does not warn me of any phishing attempts and all the images on Google show up as they normally should
Thank You

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