Windows Marketplace, Be careful where you shop!

Ok, many of you like myself over the past few months with some update from Microsoft, probably found a new link in your favorites called Windows Marketplace.

First off, I have to say, I'm not the biggest Microsoft fan, or MSN for that matter. Curiosity got the better of me with Windows Marketplace and just wondering,  what are they offering anyways.

When going to the site, even though there are free things on the site (somewhere to be found). I found it very easy to find things that they were selling, and over priced from what I could see. But that wasn't what really bothered me. There was a link to a download to a desktop theme for SpongeBob SquarePants from Download.com. I decided to read the download reviews, and found that the download file is in fact infected with a virus. So, if you don't have a virus scanner installed, chances are you are already infected with some virus. No matter how careful you think you are, a virus will find you, and when it does you should have a virus scanner installed.

So, seeing how popular Spongebob SquarePants is, and the infected site having a top high traffic link from a Microsoft site, chances are there are many  upon many newly infected sites over the past few weeks.

Hopefully Microsoft will be reading their emails and actually monitoring the sites that they link to to ensure that the sites are in-fact safe. This is one of the ultimate bate and switch routines, having a major player such and Microsoft helping you infect numerous sites is devastating.

Gerard Manning
Search Engine Placement Specialist
Website Marketing by Manning Search Marketing