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virus alert when visiting microsoft web page
« on: January 18, 2012, 04:22:50 PM »
I'm also getting an alert when visiting microsoft.com. Why is this?

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virus alert when visiting microsoft web page
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2012, 04:25:10 PM »
and what does it say ?

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Re: virus alert when visiting microsoft web page
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 06:22:57 PM »
Hi Pondus,

If I open microsoft.com via the google search page I land here: http://www.bing.com/search?q=mircosoft&form=MSSRPD
But I expect to land here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

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Re: virus alert when visiting microsoft web page
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2012, 06:34:58 PM »
Polonus,
You must be using a different search engine ???




Which when I click on the link sends me here:

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