Many of us enjoy discovering the daily “Google Doodle.” That’s when Google honors different days in history by crafting its logo into little pieces of art. Sometimes, the art is interactive. Spamfighter.com is reporting that some of those Google Doodles have been used to disseminate malicious software. For example, during the second week of May, Google posted a doodle honoring dancer Martha Graham. If you clicked, you saw the doodle “dance,” but a few of those graphics comprised web-links leading onto a scareware website. That site warned that your computer was infected, and suggested you download its “security software.” And that was the software full of malware.

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