It seems I prompted an exploration of infection related search terms in Google Trends over on the Forbes.com Firewall blog. “Malware” is becoming a sort of catch-all term for end-users, slowly replacing the various types of Ad/Mal/Spyware classifications.
Article here – worth checking out the comment by Andy Hayter, Anti-Malcode Program Manager of ICSA Labs, too. Of course, I like to think I might have contributed in some small way to certain search terms going the way of the Dinosaur…