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Old Dec 11, 2017 | 2:41 am
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Originally Posted by cosmo74
Several times now, when visiting the Flyertalk site (and only the Flyertalk site) my browser redirects to a page that looks like it could be from Apple telling me that my Macbook may be infected with a virus - says there are three possible issues - and to click to run a scan. There's no way I'm doing that and I've run my own antivirus software scan and there don't seem to be any issues - I was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same thing or if it's something specific to my computer?
It could well be a dodgy piece of advertising that is doing a re-direct, as this is a typical way that they operate the fake scan adverts. I have a similar issue on a site I use for news and these adverts come through every few months or so. I would report them to the IB tech team here at FT in the first instance to make them aware of these and for them to investigate.
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