Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware

An anonymous reader writes "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. ThreatTrack notes that the scammers could of course be targeting other keywords aside from YouTube. The more popular the keywords, the bigger the potential for infection."

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Re:I know it's another stereotypical diss on Bing

[istartedi]

I started using it a couple weeks ago because https is a useless waste of cycles. The one party you'd like to hide your searches from is NSAGoogle, and https doesn't do that. Bing gives your searches to NSA too, but at least they don't force you to use https and heat up your CPU for no good reason. Also, Google isn't simple and clean like it used to be, so Bing's pointless eye candy is no longer such a big disadvantage.

That said, I'm thinking of switching back to Google because Bing's maps suck. Also, when using Chrome you get Bing searches from typing in the URL bar instead of the URL.

I'm thinking I might try Firefox again too. Plainly, my once stable browser and search preferences are in a state of flux. This is almost entirely due to browsers and/or search engines chewing my CPU for no good reason.