[email protected] wrote: > My daughter bruings up a couple of questions after getting malware > hits while doing searches on Bing. > > Since Bing is backed by MS, it's a "default" that people will or > are probably getting with new MS installs or upgrades. Meaning > you have a highly targette audience. Is that community targetting > Bing any heavier than others? > > Since Bing's advertising is all about giving you the answers you > want, not some random stuff that may be close, is it a more > valuable/trustworthy result?
No. I finaly caved and gave it a whirl and it's as worthless as the rest of the other search engines out there (Google excluded). Personally, I am sticking with Google. If it aint broke... > > If people get a fakeAV popup from Bing, are they more likely > to trust it than if they got it from Facebook, MySpace, or Google? > It only depends on how misinformed they are. > --Gene > > PS: My impression of Bing has been that MS has done it again. > Bing is the sound that the cartoon Ricochet Rabbit made just before > speeding off and crashing into a cactus, wall or pile of junk. > It's also the sound that a small rusty bolt makes just before it > busts you knuckles while trying to extract it and twists off > instead of coming out of the hole. > > /~\ The ASCII Gene Rackow email: [email protected] > \ / Ribbon Campaign Cyber Security Office voice: 630-252-7126 > X Against HTML Argonne National Lab > / \ Email! 9700 S. Cass Ave. / Argonne, IL 60439 > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > -- Rob +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | _ | | ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) | | - against HTML email X | | / \ | | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
