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Microsoft has followed Google's lead by making the malware warnings in its Bing search engine more nuanced. On Friday, the company announced that instead of one generic warning for dangerous sites, it is now giving users different messages for malware sites and phishing sites. Where a search brings up a hit on a site known to …

  1. Neil Barnes Silver badge

    And what does it show

    For a Windows 10 update page?

    1. TheFinn

      Re: And what does it show

      Ah, y'beat me to it! And I was going to be so witty!

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: And what does it show

      Surely it just has to detect that Windows 10 is running on the Client PC ?

      1. TheFinn

        Re: And what does it show

        Tch! I would've been wittier than THAT!

        1. VinceH

          Re: And what does it show

          "Tch! I would've been wittier than THAT!"

          Ditto. I was going to say that neither Bing nor Google have this feature working properly yet - I've just searched for Microsoft in both, and neither give me a warning for microsoft.com

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    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: And what does it show

      Does it warn you about the Google Play store?

  2. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

    Such amazing tech

    Too bad Microsoft can't use it to stop the flood of Benin phishing spams relayed through Outlook.com.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    One of the great

    advantages to being an anti soicial bastard with no twatter, farcebook, twat-o-gram et-al accounts is that i rarely find myself in the posistion of being proffered up dodgy sites.

    I cant have had a "linked-in" (WTFIT?) message as i dont have a "linked-in" account.

    Be more like me.

    Be anti-social. Your AV software will love you for it.

    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

      As a rabid curmudgeon myself, I can only approve.

      1. Mark 85

        As a rabid curmudgeon myself, I can only approve.

        All hail the curmudgeon army.. we are legion.... and often confused with Luddites.

    2. VinceH

      Re: One of the great

      "advantages to being an anti soicial bastard with no twatter, farcebook, twat-o-gram et-al accounts is that i rarely find myself in the posistion of being proffered up dodgy sites."

      The article is about search results, not links that people might click on other websites, social mediocre or otherwise.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I cant have had a "linked-in" (WTFIT?) message as i dont have a "linked-in" account.

      This only means that they didn't get hold of your e-mail so they can pester you with "Harold Flooberman wants to add you to his network" or "Do you know Fenster Kaplooie, Gilbert Redolent or Stephanie Mango?"

      I was young and foolish and created a LinkedIn account using one e-mail address. I don't see how they got hold of the other two. Asking for removal (very deep in the site's settings) do nothing.

      1. AndyS

        Re: I cant have had a "linked-in" (WTFIT?) message as i dont have a "linked-in" account.

        Assuming they work the same way as all other networks, they get hold of your other addresses when other people join, and give them permission to trawl their address books (either on mobile, or by giving them the password to their webmail).

        I gave up trying to get them to stop emailing me, and simply block anything arriving from them (marked it as spam for a while in gmail, and eventually it offers to stop you seeing any more of it). I have no objection to social media, but a commercial company emailing me before I join is spam.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Redmond adds malware, phish warnings to Bing"

    So is it '<malware & phish> warnings', or is it 'malware and <phish warnings>'?

    These days with microsoft it isn't too clear.

  5. redpawn

    Does the phish & malware

    come wrapped in an old newspaper or butcher paper when served up by Bing?

    1. Mark 85

      Re: Does the phish & malware

      Either way... it still smells bad after 3 days.

  6. Commswonk

    Oh Dear...

    Microsoft has followed Google's by making the malware warnings in its Bing search engine more nuanced.

    Microsoft has followed Google's what?

    See me at the end of the lesson.

  7. BahnStormer77

    but malware still heads the list of searches....

    Searches for common utilities in Bing returns Malware sites ahead of the genuine applications - looks like the malware has got inside Bing's SEO!

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