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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 6:08 am
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Originally Posted by Pausanias
Every time I got on to FlyerTalk and open up a thread I get this warning message about my computer infected with a virus etc. I just close down and and ignore it but this has been going on for a fortnight now. Surely someone can do something about it? FlyerTalk is obviously infected by something apart from enthusiasm. In a few days I'm off to Chile and Antarctica etc which is a good reason to ignore this Forum.
Those are ads that pretend to inform you your computer is infected as a mean to incentive you to click on their "download" button which would activate the download and install of a proper malware (virus, trojan, keylogger). Malicious ads like that prey on gullible users and are at best immoral, at worst illegal. IB and the censors do not condone those illegal actions and do not act on the feedback (+50 pages thread) on this subject. You know what to do !
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