http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7118452.stm Note the following a few paragraphs down: "While computer security researchers have seen small-scale attempts to subvert search results before now, the sheer scale of this attack dwarfed all others. "This was fairly epic," said Alex Eckelberry, head of Sunbelt Software - one of the firms that uncovered the attack. Mr Eckelberry said tens of thousands of domains were used in the vanguard of the attack. Most domains were Chinese registered, hosted in the US and were only a couple of days old. Websites loaded on these domains were booby-trapped with malicious software that looked for vulnerabilities in copies of Microsoft's Internet Explorer used to browse them." "Whenever a single political movement corners power we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch." -- Kundera