Spotlight / Bing.com security issue

[Airider]

I am not sure of the relevance, but Spotlight brought up a pretty photo of Salzburg/Austria as the computer was coming out of sleep mode. Then when I clicked to sign in (am admin and don't need a password), before I could click to connect my UMTS Internet connection, Bing (as usual!) popped in and asked to help me connect (using MS's favored means, which I pointedly avoid).

Bing indicated the Spotlight (Salzburg) photo and I saw the Bing results of its search which led to the Spotlight photo.

So soon as I clicked on it Kaspersky BLOCKED the (photo's!) site as malicious phishing; when I explored Kaspersky's findings it revealed that site as being on a malicious phishing list.

As they say, WAZZUP with Spotlight ....?

.... and Bing!!!!?

 

[Wolfie]

Anyone can post malicious stuff on the web, some AV's will pick it up and some won't, might be that Kaspersky is over-cautious but I don't know. You can download the pic and then scan it BEFORE you open it!.

 

[Grizzly]

Kaspersky is not the only one. Last week I went to the ACER website and a login for a different website popped up and Windows defender blocked it as malicious. Sometimes I think a bit in the system gets lost and then the PC acts up. After a restart I went to the same website and all was good. My situation happen after a wake up from sleep mode as well....

 

[Airider]

Only wanted to post a "heads up"

 

[Wolfie]

As they say, WAZZUP with Spotlight ....?

.... and Bing!!!!?

Hi Airider,

you had question marks at the end and that is why it looked like a question(s) to me!.