Google AdWords For Blue Screen Of Death Scam

Criminals have used Google Adwords to lure users to pages that called a Blue Screen of Death show (BSOD). For resolving the problem should then phone calls. Eventually adjust the telephone scammers that they can fix it for an amount between 199 and 599 dollars, let anti-malware company Malwarebytes know.

To get people to the pages used to lure the BSOD be AdWords, the largest online advertising service from Google. When users via the Google search engine for the term "youtube" searching pull them alongside the search results to see two ads above the results. It seems here that the ads point to YouTube, but loaded into reality the BSOD page. After being informed, Google removed the ads. According to analyst Jerome Segura is consciousness but the best protection against these scams.

Google Changes Name Alphabet And Splits

Google has been renamed and is split into multiple companies, as has founder and CEO Larry Page yesterday evening in a blog posting announced. Henceforth, the company is called Alphabet , including several companies fall each with its own director.

According to Page, the split was needed because of the different areas in which Google previously operated. Thus, the companies engaged in the development of self-driving cars, life extension, life sciences and research. All these companies will now fall under loose Alphabet, which will be the largest company Google. All internet-related services such as the search engine and YouTube create part of this. Page notes that the company in this way can better keep the focus. He will also be leading Alphabet, while Sundar Pichai, the new CEO of Google.

Google Asks Firefox Users To Customize Search

Google shows a new call to Firefox Users searching on Google.com, but have set a different default search engine in the browser. In late January , the Internet giant was already showing a message, but the message is still apparent. Following the decision of Mozilla not Google but Yahoo to create the default search engine for Firefox Users US.

Thereby Yahoo saw rising share of the US search engine market since cooperation with Mozilla, from 8.7% to 10.7%, although growth in February was already over, as reported research firm StatCounter . A growing number of American Firefox users decided last month Google again to set as default search engine. However, Google now shows the new call, as discovered Twitterers