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Another Bing advert to steer clear of…

19
Oct
2011

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”.  Click to Enlarge As with most of these downloads, the site is reasonably convincing: Click to Enlarge Hit the install button, and you’ll be faced with the following Pinball […]

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You lost your Facebook messages!

17
Oct
2011

Or, to put it another way, you didn’t. However, spam mail doing the rounds wants you to think otherwise. Click to Enlarge “You have three lost messages on Facebook, to recover the messages please follow the link below.” The links just go to the usual advert / viagra junk. What’s kind of funny here is […]

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Bing, Yahoo! Search adverts serve up malware

17
Sep
2011

Overnight we saw a number of adverts being displayed in Bing that were directing end-users to malicious content. These adverts were promoting all manner of downloads including Firefox, Skype and uTorrent. Some of the search terms used: “FireFox Download” “Download Skype” “Download Adobe Player” As you can see, they’re not particularly complicated or unusual searches […]

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