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For some recent articles on malvertising, see Malvertising Push Infects 288 Popular Websites and Large Angler Malvertising Campaign Hits Top Publishers
Frogboy suggests uBlock Origin. I appreciate that. I'm open to it. But I think has a learning curve, and I'm really busy now at this point in my life.
Malwarebytes of course recommends Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit. I have bought HItmanPro.Alert and WinAntiRansom, so I'm not buying MAE Premium. I don't know if MAE free is compatible with HitmanPro.Alert. (I'm not autorunning WinAntiRansom yet right now because it's very new, and after running it I think it needs some debugging.)
That Lavasoft Ad-Aware Web Companion that's on giveaway now?
In the infosecurity article it says: "The most common lure used in malvertisements to date has been fake Flash updates." I learned my lesson about those several years ago with one I encountered on YouTube. I got some kind of obscure media player that seemed to be malware. As long as it was on my system Opera and Chrome pages bounced and were unusable.
I seldom click on ads. I suppose what all this tells you if you find one that really interests you, before you click on it, you need to check it out with some sort of URL checker. Easy to do on Firefox, not so much on Maxthon.
Computer: DELL Dimension 2400
CPU: Intel Pentium 4-2667 (Northwood, D1)
2666 MHz (20.00x133.3) @ 2658 MHz (20.00x132.9)
Motherboard: DELL 0G1548
Chipset: Intel 845GEV (Brookdale-GEV) + ICH4
Memory: 2048 MBytes @ 166 MHz, 2.5-3-3-7
- 1024 MB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM - Kingston K
- 1024 MB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM - Kingston K
Graphics: Intel 82845G/GL/GV Graphics Controller [DELL]
Intel i845G(L) Integrated, 64 MB
Drive: WL120GPA872, 117.2 GB, E-IDE (ATA-7)
Drive: HGST HTS545050A7E380, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s <-> USB
Drive: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S, CD-R Writer
Sound: Creative Technology SB Live! Series Audio Processor
Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC [A/B/C]
Network: Broadcom 4401 10/100 Integrated Controller
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Build 2600
Antivirus: ESET Smart Security 9.0.375.0
Firewall: ESET Smart Security 9.0.375.0
Default Browser: Maxthon
Frogboy suggests uBlock Origin. I appreciate that. I'm open to it. But I think has a learning curve, and I'm really busy now at this point in my life.
Malwarebytes of course recommends Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit. I have bought HItmanPro.Alert and WinAntiRansom, so I'm not buying MAE Premium. I don't know if MAE free is compatible with HitmanPro.Alert. (I'm not autorunning WinAntiRansom yet right now because it's very new, and after running it I think it needs some debugging.)
That Lavasoft Ad-Aware Web Companion that's on giveaway now?
In the infosecurity article it says: "The most common lure used in malvertisements to date has been fake Flash updates." I learned my lesson about those several years ago with one I encountered on YouTube. I got some kind of obscure media player that seemed to be malware. As long as it was on my system Opera and Chrome pages bounced and were unusable.
I seldom click on ads. I suppose what all this tells you if you find one that really interests you, before you click on it, you need to check it out with some sort of URL checker. Easy to do on Firefox, not so much on Maxthon.
Computer: DELL Dimension 2400
CPU: Intel Pentium 4-2667 (Northwood, D1)
2666 MHz (20.00x133.3) @ 2658 MHz (20.00x132.9)
Motherboard: DELL 0G1548
Chipset: Intel 845GEV (Brookdale-GEV) + ICH4
Memory: 2048 MBytes @ 166 MHz, 2.5-3-3-7
- 1024 MB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM - Kingston K
- 1024 MB PC3200 DDR-SDRAM - Kingston K
Graphics: Intel 82845G/GL/GV Graphics Controller [DELL]
Intel i845G(L) Integrated, 64 MB
Drive: WL120GPA872, 117.2 GB, E-IDE (ATA-7)
Drive: HGST HTS545050A7E380, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s <-> USB
Drive: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S, CD-R Writer
Sound: Creative Technology SB Live! Series Audio Processor
Network: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC [A/B/C]
Network: Broadcom 4401 10/100 Integrated Controller
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Build 2600
Antivirus: ESET Smart Security 9.0.375.0
Firewall: ESET Smart Security 9.0.375.0
Default Browser: Maxthon
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