Here’s an advert in Bing which wants you to install some adware located at chrome(dot)freewarecentral(dot)net – it was coming up in results when searching for “Chrome download”.
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As with most of these downloads, the site is reasonably convincing:
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Hit the install button, and you’ll be faced with the following Pinball Corp installer:
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After you’ve installed the adware, you’ll be taken to
chrome(dot)freewarecentral(dot)net/download/?m1vcjhbpqo
which actually does give you the real Chrome. However, you could just go here and download it without all the additional installs. Microsoft have been notified.
Christopher Boyd (Thanks Matthew)
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