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Has anyone else noticed on the homepage for Microsoft if you click on one of the compare Siri or Cortana or Surface Pro 3 and Mac you get redirected to a malware site? I'm not going to put the URL to the site but Web of Trust stopped it from loading and here is that link. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/ib.adnxs.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc I did contact Microsoft about this but you all think it's a big issue?

(09-16-2014, 08:22 PM)ShroomBoy69 Wrote: [ -> ]Has anyone else noticed on the homepage for Microsoft if you click on one of the compare Siri or Cortana or Surface Pro 3 and Mac you get redirected to a malware site? I'm not going to put the URL to the site but Web of Trust stopped it from loading and here is that link. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/ib.adnxs.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc I did contact Microsoft about this but you all think it's a big issue?

Hi that wot url is not a microsft one?

It's just a advertising/marketing tracker https://www.ghostery.com/en/apps/appnexus most corporations use them.

As to their level of maliciousness it would depend upon their dealings with external parties.

the redirect actually takes you to a microsft page but the tracking cookies are placed in your roaming folder for market research purposes.