After much thought,Virus Guy came up with this jewel:

> kurt wismer wrote:
>
> > > I just checked it out (with an unpatched W2K) and Nod alerted
> > > and blocked loading of page! I guess it works!
>
> Just to make things clear - even if NOD displayed a detection message
> - did IE crash, or did it give a "page not found" error? What exactly
> was IE's behavior when it was pointed at that page?


IE did not crash,but I do not remember what was displayed. I use the
mvp hosts file and get a lot of "page not found" in the ad boxes. Sorry
but I let the auto-updater run last night.

> > thanks for the verification... i think it's safe to say now
> > that nod32 qualifies as a first line of defense at the end-point
>
> Does anyone else find it interesting that Google served up that page
> without any warning, especially since it came from their own cache?
>
> It's sad that after all this time, that Google still has little to no
> ability (or they choose not to deploy) more sophisticated exploit
> detection and warning mechanisms on their search page.

I don't think it is feasible for google to check on every link provided
in a search,nor do I want them to.

max
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