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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Back in the day, major news sites like the BBC ran ads that were infected with malware that then infected computers. These weren’t shady sites like people expect you to get viruses from.

Installed an ad blocker the day that news broke and never looked back. Ads are potentially harmful to your devices.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The WoW forums around 2012 had a virus infect thousands of computers before blizzard removed it. It was a 3rd party ad that was spreading the virus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I remember that, thousands of people got keyloggers and their accounts compromised. Then Blizzard tried to blame those people for getting infected, from the Blizzard website.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

This is still an issue today.