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Shadowy Rogue

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Lately browsing Gaia has led me to get suspicious popups and some viruses from ads. Thankfully my antivirus catches them, but this is rather unsettling.

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Lately browsing Gaia has led me to get suspicious popups and some viruses from ads. Thankfully my antivirus catches them, but this is rather unsettling.
And the question is? o-o

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Lately browsing Gaia has led me to get suspicious popups and some viruses from ads. Thankfully my antivirus catches them, but this is rather unsettling.
And the question is? o-o


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Yeah, I've been getting redirected to some fishy sites while I've been on Gaia today...

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I also kept getting a bunch of popups yesterday...

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I have Sophos anti-virus software and it's caught quite a few nefarious ads containing possible viruses and malware that have appeared on Gaia. I'm not sure how much control Gaia has over this sort of thing, but everybody who uses the Internet should have a good anti-virus program installed.

I did have a recent situation where I got an error that shut down my entire system, but I am not sure it was caused by Gaia or some other site I had open at the time. This just happened the other day. Fortunately, I was able to re-boot and things appear normal now.

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I so rarely have issues with popups and malicious things in ads from other sites. But got quite a lot of it from Gaia before I started using Adblock and Ghostery. I don't come on Gaia without those on now. I'd rather save my computer than their ad revenue.

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been sometime since it first happened to me

I am seriously considering adblock .-.

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I use a combination of AdBlock + Kaspersky internet security / antivirus.

It's upsetting because Adblock can hurt websites, but if they didn't have so many tacky ads,
people wouldn't resort to getting it in some cases.

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I've gotten some as well and I will be reporting advertisements from here on out.

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Ad-Block.

I know it hurts website revenue, but I'd rather have an intact PC to visit said websites rather than live in fear of some nasty malware attacking my system.

I've seen some really grotesque ads on sites such as Yahoo (shocking/disturbing gross out ads of stuff like blisters and parasites), so using Ad-Block has been a staple of my internet life.

Eugh.

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+1 to Adblock.
I've never seen an ad, popup, wait page, etc. on this site.
It's beautiful.

Shadowy Rogue

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I now have Adblock.

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It's upsetting because Adblock can hurt websites, but if they didn't have so many tacky ads,
people wouldn't resort to getting it in some cases.
Indeed! I tried to spend time on Gaia without Adblock but the ads are so obnoxious and overabundant that I couldn't stand this for even just 5 Minutes.

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It's upsetting because Adblock can hurt websites, but if they didn't have so many tacky ads,
people wouldn't resort to getting it in some cases.
Indeed! I tried to spend time on Gaia without Adblock but the ads are so obnoxious and overabundant that I couldn't stand this for even just 5 Minutes.
Ads are risks for the computer, especially if the pop-ups are true. I never met a pop-up that my computer didn't tell me almost gave me malware. If sites are going to force ads down my throat they need to make sure they aren't hotbeds for viruses. Thus I use adblock without feeling bad at all.
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