Bing refutes study that showed it led to 5X more malware than Google

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Microsoft has finally responded to a study claiming that Bing’s search results delivered five times as much malware than Google’s, and its answer is simple: the study is flawed. Last week, AV-TEST conducted a malware study that analyzed millions of websites and found that Bing was showing much more malware to users than its more popular… Read More…

Protecting the people: Microsoft helps crush Bamital malware that affected thousands

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Chalk one up for Microsoft. Today, the Redmond software giant teamed up with Symantec to take down a nasty malware affecting thousands upon thousands of PCs. The cyber crime was a Bamital botnet that hijacked people’s search experiences and redirected victims to potentially dangerous sites that could leave them vulnerable to other online threats and steal their… Read More…