Bing teaches users how to pirate Office 2019

Posted on Monday, December 17 2018 @ 11:11 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

A funny thing happened on Bing as Microsoft's search engine picked a website that promotes piracy as the highlighted search result for the term "office 2019 download". ZD Net writes the top result for this search query is a website that teaches users how to obtain a pirated copy of Office 2019.

Presumably, Microsoft will step in and manually adjust the search results. The same thing happened earlier this year, when the top Bing ad result for "Google Chrome" took users to a malware-infected version of the browser.

Earlier this year, the top ad in Bing for the search term "Google Chrome" redirected users to a fake Google Chrome download page that served a trojanized version of the browser.

Gotta love Bing. pic.twitter.com/gjhQbdW4fE
— Jeroen Frijters (@JeroenFrijters) December 14, 2018

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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