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Microsoft.com issues - ShroomBoy69 - 09-16-2014
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?
RE: Microsoft.com issues - TopFreeware - 09-16-2014
(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?
RE: Microsoft.com issues - GuiltySpark - 09-17-2014
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.