One of the most popular text editors around has been infected with malicious ads

[Kent Sharkey]

Tech Radar[^]:

Cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes recently discovered a campaign hijacking Google Ads being served to people searching for Notepad++, a popular word editing software.

BadNews++

Fortunately, no one needs to search for it, as everyone has it installed already.

[Richard Deeming]

Bit of a misleading headline. The text editor hasn't been "infected"; it's Google Ads once again being abused to serve up malware to anyone who dares use Google Search to actually search for something. It's almost as if Google care more about ad revenue than the safety of their users. :doh:

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[Gary Wheeler]

Kent Sharkey wrote:

Tech Radar[^]:

Good grief, do you think that TechRadar could have less content and more ads? X|

Software Zen: delete this;

[Lost User]

That's why you have a (MVPS) host-file as a first line of defense.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.