One day after Safer Internet Day in which Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other tech giants touted a safer Internet browsing experience, a rogue Amazon paid-search ad appeared at the top of the Google search results page.
Google served the ad on Wednesday to anyone searching for “Amazon,” a branded keyword term. Clicking on the advertisement redirected the searcher to a rogue site.
The Amazon ad pointed to a fake Windows support scam posting as a Microsoft site. The Web page provided a phone number to those who feared their computer was in fact infected with malware.
