Windows 10: apps serving malicious ads

Windows 10 users running apps that display ads may become targets of misleading reports that their system has been infected or that they have won a .

Several basic Windows applications, e.g. the application , which exist in , they show ads and apparently many of these ad-supported apps are causing the above problem to users.

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The ad is sent from an ad server, and is displayed to the application user. The ad opens a web page in the default browser and displays some of the above, e.g. the computer is infected, or you won an iPhone.

The website that tries to intimidate the user reports, for example, that viruses were found on the computer on a website that resembles the official Microsoft website.

Experienced users may notice that this is a scam and usually close the window, but inexperienced users can follow the tips and thus infect their systems or give out personal information or make a purchase.

A German company support page (Microsoft Answers) reports the problem already. Microsoft MVP volunteer coordinator Ingo Böttcher confirms that Windows Apps can open fake web pages with this type of messaging.

If you come across any malicious ad, it is recommended to immediately close the tabs or web pages that will be opened. Doing so will not harm your computer or personal files. The messages are fake and your computer is not infected with a virus or something as claimed by web page.

We should mention that Microsoft is not the only company that displays such . Google Search has shown such messages in the past, but other major advertising companies have had similar incidents in the past.

The incident shows once again that advertising in its current form poses risks for the Internet. The only option users have to protect their systems is by using ad blockers.

Advertising companies such as Microsoft, Google or Facebook, should do n often the ad servers of the companies they cooperate with.

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