patch for unicode errors, it appears that selenium isn't formatted to handle unicode errors (as far as I can tell) so the dork that causes the error will be skipped (issue #125)

etc/checksum/md5sum.md5

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-f75a6d23bd80e9861153c9c52dce15bd  ./zeus.py
+4910b563b0f2403dbe4a89f10001de0b  ./zeus.py
 6ad5f22ec4a6f8324bfb1b01ab6d51ec  ./etc/scripts/cleanup.sh
 155c9482f690f1482f324a7ffd8b8098  ./etc/scripts/fix_pie.sh
 0e435c641bc636ac0b3d54e032d9cf6a  .etc/scripts/install_nmap.sh
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ f27322b9716e1a2b0b0b0487f3149474  ./lib/attacks/whois_lookup/whois.py
 c5ebb0c56c9ae3b9a72a14e3f05afa16  ./lib/attacks/intel_me/__init__.py
 1faa2b5dfad6eb538bbfe42942d2a9da  ./lib/core/errors.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./lib/core/__init__.py
-95f45565a70e223e091ff306464c9888  ./lib/core/settings.py
+d68e0285c6d17335a6f4abeefb689c5c  ./lib/core/settings.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./var/google_search/__init__.py
-6fe42683a339115709c32562b305f116  ./var/google_search/search.py
+b92ee17da90b17a0abb4e07e24fca3e1  ./var/google_search/search.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./var/__init__.py
 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./var/auto_issue/__init__.py
 4506850a02aa18e12bef4efeb760ad9e  ./var/auto_issue/github.py

lib/core/settings.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ PATCH_ID = str(subprocess.check_output(["git", "rev-parse", "origin/master"]))[:
 # clone link
 CLONE = "https://github.com/ekultek/zeus-scanner.git"
 # current version <major.minor.commit.patch ID>
-VERSION = "1.1.1"
+VERSION = "1.1.2.{}".format(PATCH_ID)
 # colors to output depending on the version
 VERSION_TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 92, "other": 30}
 # version string formatting
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ URL_EXCLUDES = (
     "maps.google", "play.google", "youtube",
     "drive.google", "books.google", "news.google",
     "www.google", "mail.google", "accounts.google",
-    "schema.org", "www.<b", "https://cid-", "https://<strong"  # these are some weird things that get pulled up?
+    "schema.org", "www.<b", "https://cid-", "https://<strong",  # these are some weird things that get pulled up?
+    "plus.google"
 )
 # regular expressions used for DBMS recognition based on error message response
 DBMS_ERRORS = {

var/google_search/search.py

@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ def get_urls(query, url, verbose=False, warning=True, **kwargs):
       the Google URL. This will open a robot controlled browser window and attempt
       to get a URL from Google that will be used for scraping afterwards.
     """
+    query = query.decode('unicode_escape').encode('utf-8')
     proxy, user_agent = kwargs.get("proxy", None), kwargs.get("user_agent", None)
     if verbose:
         logger.debug(set_color(
@@ -164,6 +165,13 @@ def get_urls(query, url, verbose=False, warning=True, **kwargs):
         search.send_keys(query)
         search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)  # hit return after you enter search text
         time.sleep(3)
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        logger.error(set_color(
+            "your query '{}' appears to have unicode characters in it, selenium is not "
+            "properly formatted to handle unicode characters, this dork will be skipped...".format(
+                query
+            ), level=40
+        ))
     if verbose:
         logger.debug(set_color(
             "obtaining URL from selenium..."

zeus.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import optparse
 import os
+import io
 import shlex
 import subprocess
 import time
@@ -450,7 +451,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
         # use a file full of dorks as the queries
         elif opt.dorkFileToUse is not None:
-            with open(opt.dorkFileToUse) as dorks:
+            with io.open(opt.dorkFileToUse, encoding="utf-8") as dorks:
                 for dork in dorks.readlines():
                     dork = dork.strip()
                     logger.info(set_color(