Actually, the article appears to indicate that the trouble is with users'
computers infected with malware: 

<snip>
Google announced the program July 19, after discovering what it called an
unusual pattern of activity while doing maintenance on a server. The unusual
traffic was being routed to Google through a small number of proxy servers.

"After collaborating with security engineers at several companies that were
sending this modified traffic, we determined that the computers exhibiting
this behavior were infected with a particular strain of malicious software,
or 'malware,'" Menscher (security engineer at Google) wrote in the blog. "As
a result of this discovery, today some people will see a prominent
notification at the top of their Google Web search results."

Menscher wrote that the malware apparently was delivered to victims'
computers through a fake antivirus scheme and that it has been in
circulation for a while. (Although Google issues the alerts with search
results, the malware has nothing to do with searches.) As many as several
million machines could be infected.
</snip>

In other words, *not* a hack of Google's servers, but a combination of a
hack of users' computers and some social engineering that relies on Google's
reputation - nearly identical in context to the emails or pop-up ads some of
you get purporting to have identified a virus with the call to "click here
to clean your PC!!!!!". 

Regards, 

Jesse Wilkins, CRM
Director, Systems of Engagement
AIIM International
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http://www.aiim.org
(303) 574-0749 direct
Twitter: @jessewilkins

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