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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. [Locked] |
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
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I was reading the main board a few minutes ago (1/1/11 @ 11:20 am EST) and was redirected to a fake antivirus site. Not sure what the ad was that redirected me but it was a mouseover. Alt F4 brought me through to another page instead of killing Chrome.
I will send a message to the board admins next.
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Rill_of_WE  Title: WoW Vault Site Manager
Posts: 557
Registered: 2002-8-6 09:16:33
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
Firefox, Adblock, Noscript FTW
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Liquid741 Title: VN Sensei
Posts: 920
Registered: 2006-12-16 13:56:50
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Date Posted:
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
Rill_of_WE posted:
Firefox, Adblock, Noscript FTW
this...
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Date Posted:
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Rill_of_WE posted:
Firefox, Adblock, Noscript FTW
x3 
But thanks for the warning for those who don't use those basic precautions.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
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Yea, not infected here. I was able to kill the process before it tried to download anything.
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-Myk-  Title: Not a War Criminal
Posts: 373
Registered: 2004-11-15 19:27:42
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
The_Korrigan posted:
Rill_of_WE posted:
Firefox, Adblock, Noscript FTW
x3
But thanks for the warning for those who don't use those basic precautions.
Your idea of basic isn't very basic. The average user most likely will not be using those addons, IF they even use firefox.
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Trigeminal Title: Drill, Fill, Bill
Posts: 365
Registered: 2002-3-17 20:10:56
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
Rill_of_WE posted:
Firefox, Adblock, Noscript FTW
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
-Myk- posted:
Your idea of basic isn't very basic. The average user most likely will not be using those addons, IF they even use firefox.
The equivalent exists for Chrome too.
And yeah, it's basic precautions. With those, you're pretty safe from any kind of ad infection.
Just like when there's snow on the road, a basic precaution is to use chains, or at least appropriate tires. Yet many people still don't do it - it's nonetheless a basic precaution 
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-Myk- Title: Not a War Criminal
Posts: 373
Registered: 2004-11-15 19:27:42
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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I be willing to be less people use those items than people that do use them. I have yet to see them used in a business environment (I worked for DoD until last month). You may consider it basic but the average user most likely does not even know about them.
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Quazimortal  Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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VN has an infected Ad! Be careful of redirect. |
What are ads?
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