Microsoft Bing Security Covers Familiar Ground

A search engine isn’t worth much if the results it produces lead users to malware.

An obvious statement no doubt, but one Microsoft kept in mind with its new ‘Bing’ search engine. Following the footsteps of other search engines, Bing may not break new ground when it comes to security, but it doesn’t really fall behind its competitors either.

“Bing’s malware detection consists of two things,” a Microsoft spokesperson said. “The first is Drive-by-Download detection where Bing warns [end users] that the site is hacked and won’t take them directly to the site when they click, instead providing a warning. Secondly, for social engineering malware sites, Bing manually blocks such sites from showing up in the search results.”