Mac virus

[Sysman]

Some; it's a technique known as SEO poisoning, whereby you cause a domain to rank highly for some popular search terms and, once the Googlejuice is flowing your way, set it to redirect to the server with the evil crap. (You don't redirect when the Googlebot comes calling, obviously...)

EDIT: and, as explained in that Microsoft post I linked to up there, it's the server you're redirected to that detects whether you're on Windows or Mac and serves up the appropriate crap accordingly.

I just got hit by another via Google Images, so it's time to block them.

This time it was a product called MacKeeper, which looks extremely dodgy. Dodgy looking Russian(ish) names too. There are reports on their forum (url scrubbed)* that's it's hard to uninstall as well.

Most disturbingly it greyed out nearly all Safari's menu options, but Quit was still there, and that's what I used.

*url scrubbed because clicking on links to reviews on that site initiate a download.

P.S. There's a glowing write up of it at applenerd.net, but I have to assume that's fake as well. Ooh yes it is - the Facebook bit on the RHS is just an image that does nowt.

P.P.S. It's time Google got their act together on this one.