The malware came from the websites hosting the images linked to by the Google search results, not from loading any ads or anything else on any Google property (furthermore, the Google Doodle is not an ad); merely viewing the results page itself is harmless, only clicking one of the images to go on to the site actually causes harm, and this form of malware distribution (malicious SEO) is growing so severely that it's now more harmful to search for breaking news stories than to search for porn or warez.gabranth wrote:it is about ads google doodle = ad with google's personal copyrighted name for it in this case it was advertising martha graham that when clicked on sent people to malware sites the report isn't about malware in google results that everywhere its about google's ad sending people to links containing malware
Although generic ad-blocking lists are useless against this vector of malware transmission, lists specifically targeting various malicious domains (the ones from which the payloads are retrieved, much fewer in number than the exploited domains used in blackhat SEO) still make ABP a useful part of a security strategy; the best-known one is "Malware Domains" and there is another one from MalwarePatrol and there may be others of note.