Contaminated with phishing

[IBJoel]

Originally Posted by radar101

Yep my AVG is saying the same every time I go to the "Friday Memes and Cartoons thread.

And now seems to be any Jet Blast thread

Thank you for the screenshot! I will report this to our ads department. Bascially it's a malicious ad, as Abrahn noted

[Cornish Jack]

Originally Posted by artee

A few years ago Avast was found to be selling user's browsing histories. I believe they've stopped since then:

Avast is collecting its users' browsing histories and selling the data to third parties, according to a joint investigation by PCMag and Motherboard. This is just the latest example of free antivirus software harvesting data. After all, that free antivirus has to make money somehow.

Update: On January 30, 2020, Avast announced it will shut down to its Jumpshot subsidiary, which sold its users' browser histories to marketers.

My Avast is most certainly NOT free !! Bloody expensive, actually, but does seem to pick up on the occasonal 'nasty'.

[radar101]

Thank you for the screenshot! I will report this to our ads department. Bascially it's a malicious ad, as Abrahn noted

​​​​​​​Thanks IBJoel, It seems to be fixed.

[longer ron]

Are you sure Radar ?
I am still getting the phishing warning as per the AVG screenshot above.

regards LR

[radar101]

Are you sure Radar ?
I am still getting the phishing warning as per the AVG screenshot above.

regards LR

Yes - just tried all the usual threads and no warnings. Have you dismissed/cancelled the warnings - could these be old ones still there?

regards

​​​​​​​Lew

[longer ron]

Hi Lew
Yep had closed off the AVG warnings - but noted that the next time when I logged in and scrolled down a couple of threads - no warnings thus far so hopefully IB tech have sorted.

cheers/regards LR

[washoutt]

The irritating "phishing" has disapeared! Thanks Moderator, I can once again read PPRuNe at my leasure..

[IBJoel]

AVG/Avast messed up and erroneously marked IB sites as dangerous, it turns out