<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222961,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV112807STR1">Tens of thousands of malware-serving pages,</A> crafted to reach a high search engine ranking, are showing up in the first page of returns from Google, Yahoo and Live. The seeding of malware into pages returned from searches for innocent terms has reached epic proportions, security researchers say.

Malicious iFrames, rootkits and fake codecs are being served up on tens of thousands of sites returned as results for searches for such things as alternate router firmware or "how to for Microsoft Excel."