Earlier this year, users discovered that searching for “pong” on Bing included a playable version of the game in the search results. It looks like Microsoft is continuing to add fun Easter Eggs into its search engine, as searching for “snake game” now allows you to play the classic game…
Microsoft’s Bing for Android offers its own contextual search feature right now
You might remember the Google Now on Tap feature that is coming with Android Marshmallow (still feels funny to type that). With this feature, you don’t have to leave the page you’re on to get more information from Google Now. For example, let’s say that you open an email on…
Microsoft is investigating claims that some Bing ads are redirecting users to malware
Security firm ThreatTrack Security Labs today spotted that certain Bing ads are linking to sites that infect users with malware. Those who click are redirected to a dynamic DNS service subdomain which in turns serves the Sirefef malware from 109(dot)236(dot)81(dot)176. Update: Microsoft is investigating, see statement below. ThreatTrack notes that the scammers could of course be…
Bing Malware Warnings Linger
It generally takes three to six weeks for a Bing malware removal label to go away, which is a lot longer than it takes for Google, which is days, and can at times be under 24 hours. Regardless, to find out that you’ve received a malware removal label, only to…
Bing Malware Warnings Adds Salt To Wound
We know Bing takes 3-6 weeks for the malware removal label to disappear, which is much longer than Google’s malware removal process (which is days). But to give Bing credit, they had user access to Webmaster Tools years before Google did. In any event, can you imagine first finding out…
Bing Malware Warnings Adds Salt To Wound
We know Bing takes 3-6 weeks for the malware removal label to disappear, which is much longer than Google’s malware removal process (which is days). But to give Bing credit, they had user access to Webmaster Tools years before Google did. In any event, can you imagine first finding out…
Malicious ads make their way onto Bing and Yahoo
MALWARE DISTRIBUTORS have managed to get their rogue ads displayed on Bing and Yahoo when users search for popular software downloads. The paid links take users to web sites resembling those products’ home pages, but hosting malware instead. The malicious advertising, or malvertising, campaigns were detected by security researchers at…
Yahoo, Bing Ads Serve Malware
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