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Pond-life malware writers have wasted little time poisoning search results based on Friday's devastating earthquake in Japan with links to scareware portals. Black-hat search engine manipulation was used to push sites offering fake security software high in the index of results based on the search term keyword "most recent …

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  1. Ray Simard

    Heartless cretins

    See above.

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  2. Colin Miller

    Kidon media link

    If you want to find Japanese newsites in English, then a comprehensive list of the world's media is listed by Kidon[1] . Unfortunately, it doesn't indicate if the sites are general-interest, tech, sports, etc..

    [1] http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.php

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  3. 0laf
    Badgers

    Credit where credit is due

    They're quick off the mark and efficeint at what they do. Most public and private business could never react as quickly as these douchebags.

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    1. Beau
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      WTF?

      I agree, but just remember!

      Just because they are dirty shit-bags, that doesn't mean they are stupid!!

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  4. bruceld

    Everyone wants to earn a buck...

    ...at the expense of dead and dying children all around the world.

    This is no different than having to watch these effing annoyance ads before watching a news clip about the Japan earthquake tsunami.

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