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alykatz

Is it just me or do there seem to be keyword pop up ads all over the forum tonight?

I do hope this is not going to continue as its going to really annoy me and i will stop using the forum if it continues.

fermi

None at all here.

There should never ever be any on the forum, so I suspect you have acquired some adware/malware on your PC or device. That is the usual cause in these cases.

alykatz

Yep think the kids been installing stuff again .

fermi

Yes, that could well be the case. :cool:

alykatz

Lol it was the case, damn thing was a pain to remove.
Still her own lappy will be back up today so my comp should be ok.

esuhl

I'm not sure how effective they are, but these programs block a huge number of malware-related domains. You need to manually update the free versions, but it should provide some protection:

SpywareBlaster: https://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/

And, if you use Firefox or Chrome, you can install the AdBlock-Plus add-on and add the "malware domains" blocklist.

AdBlock Plus for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
AdBlock Plus for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb
Malware domains blocklist: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/malwaredomains_full.txt