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Recently while Googling “Olla de Carne” (Costa Rican beef stew) my browser (Chrome 3.0) was hijacked after taking a search results link. Rather than receiving a list of ingredients, the link redirected the browser to a bogus antivirus site that mimicked Windows and faked an integrated Explorer virus scan (see screenshot below or watch the video).

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