Microsoft's Live Search Excels In Spreading Malware

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Microsoft's Live Search Excels In Spreading Malware

#1 quietman7

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 07:15 AM

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...Windows Live Search...leads the pack: referrals for sites that actively try to infect end users' machines with some of the vilest malware known to man...According to researchers at Sunbelt-Software, Live.com's affair with malicious sites runs so torrid that malware-related returns on the search engine number in the thousands...

theregister.com

Looks like more bad news for Microsoft.

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#2 tg1911

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 08:50 AM

That's not surprising. :thumbsup:

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Microsoft has said that its OneCare security suite has "a problem" with the underlying antivirus code, and admitted that security is just "a little part of Microsoft".

Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out

This post has been edited by tg1911: 21 March 2007 - 08:51 AM

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