Ads/viruses on this forum

[thealmightymudworm]

Generally I surf the web with an ad-blocker on, but turned off for any number of sites I use regularly and want to support – eg YouTube, a bunch of news sites, etc.

Until recently I had it turned off on this forum too. But twice over the summer I suddenly had a message pop up to say 'Your Flash player is out of date!' followed by a flip onto another website and a .dmg file automatically downloading which clearly wasn't anything to do with Flash. It's only ever happened whilst I've been on this site (it seemed pretty clear on checking my History that this site was involved in forwarding me), and hasn't happened since I re-enabled the ad-blocker, even though I wasn't clicking anywhere near an ad when s*** happened.

I probably need to fiddle with the security settings on my new laptop to stop things being downloaded so easily, but I wondered whether other people had had similar trouble...?

[offm]

Seen this kind of scam on email and even on images that people share that suppose to be friendly and then infected the android tablet with bloatware s* from the store, never seen it on ads but it can happen.

[aggsol]

Also annoying pop upswhen using the mobile site to download some app. I encourage using an ad blocker even here. There should be a better way to support this place.

[CharlesX]

A while back, like 10 months ago when I was only reading the solutions here instead of posting messages, I clicked on an ordinary-looking FF 'solution' with the title thread '6'; the content reading was the duplicate of another FF solution, but some malicious virus was downloaded and my computer deleted its restored save-point, among other things. Shoulda reported it at the time, really.
  The thread itself disappeared from the site a week or so later, whether moderators dealt with it or the s**t moved on, don't know.