More bad ads in Bing, Yahoo search

Another round of bad ads in Bing and Yahoo search are making an unwelcome return. Bing has fake Firefox adverts:

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Yahoo has fake Adobe Flash adverts instead, located at gripwise(dot)com(dot)au/player/:

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As you can see from the below screenshot, the Gripwise URL where this is located appears to have been compromised:

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Both sites will give you the Privacy Protection rogue, and the domain used for the fake Firefox download (ipropertyoffice(dot)com) has active exploits so please steer clear. VirusTotal scores weigh in at 17/43, and we detect as Win32.Malware!Drop.

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At time of writing, Microsoft have been notified and have said the adverts have been pulled. All the same, be very careful when clicking on sponsored adverts for common downloads such as Firefox, Flash and others. As we've seen time and time again, scammers are all too eager to push malicious files on unsuspecting users.

Christopher Boyd (Thanks Matthew)