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General => Lobby => Topic started by: Thorin on October 19, 2011, 10:35:54 AM

Title: Bing/Yahoo Advertise Rootkit-Installing Pages
Post by: Thorin on October 19, 2011, 10:35:54 AM
http://www.itworld.com/software/213403/bing-and-yahoo-sponsored-results-lead-hard-remove-rootkit

Yet another genius idea from bad guys - buy ads on popular search engines that lead to pages that install rootkits.  According to the article this used to happen to Google but then Google started double-checking all their ads.

A security expert also advises users to type in the web address instead of clicking links.  Yeah, good luck with getting people to do that.