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The business model of many companies is still advertising. You can't blame them for not being too happy they aren't making money off visitors. I actually had s
by rradu 16y ago
The business model of many companies is still advertising. You can't blame them for not being too happy they aren't making money off visitors.
I actually had several visitors on my site email me saying they got a virus from my site. I immediately ruled out the Google ads thinking there was no way it could come from there. Still, I felt terrible having having allowed my users be subjected to those ads, and I viewed it as bad business practice too--so it definitely didn't fall into a "not my problem" field
- gregpilling 16y agoI have had two of my office computers get hit by this in the past year. At first I thought the office assistant was going to sites that she shouldn't have, until I got hit by it while on Autoblog.com which is an AOL site. At that point noscript and adblock got installed. But there are definitely badthings coming from ad networks. They are subtle - it may only try to send the payload every 10 or 20 screen refreshes - but they do send it. It took 10 screen refreshes on Autoblog, for example. This was some months ago, so I don't know if there is still a problem. The payload for me was the real looking Windows box that pops up and tells you that you have 20 viruses and to fix it just send $29.95 to this site and it will all go away.