Analysts have looked into the way the viruses are scripted, their sources, the trojan embed methods and the damage systems and suggested that it is highly likely that Chinese hackers were responsible for this virus. However, since most people searching for "Benazir Bhutto" on the internet are foriegners, the chance of this virus spreading through Baidu and mainland China websites remains low. Hence it is expected to cause no major harm to surfers in China. more ›

Even weirder stuff than the Youtube block seems to have been happening, though. Apparently, for a short while on the 17th, before the Youtube block occurred, blogsearch.google.com and live.com were both redirected to Baidu! Blogsearch.google.cn was totally inaccessible. This has been confirmed by Ken Wong (see screencaps on his blog) and other Chinese netizens. Google Blogoscoped reported that yet more exotic pages like search.ibm.com.cn were also being hijacked to Baidu. more ›