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anyone else getting phishing popups ?

Anyone else getting popups browsing in this forum? I am posting here in the cables forum because this is the place I have received this phishing popup. I have not seen them in any other forum, or website. 

My AVG stops the popup from happening, but one of my laptops on Malwarebytes does not, and the cable forum webpage becomes a fake McAfee anti virus popup (ironically) which states you are infected "click here" . I have had one before which said I won a prize also in this cable forum. 

Since I cannot post a picture of this screen shot of this fake popup I have a link to the image via dropbox if you are curious to see what this looks like

Please respond if this has also happened to you, as when I reported this to Audiogon admin they state I have been the only one to do so.

Mcafee phishing

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falconquest
1,108 posts
 

My Trend Micro antivirus provides an adblocker as well so I don’t get ads. Another tool I use is CrapCleaner which is free. I run that about every week or so to clean up unwanted files, cookies etc.

tvrgeek
299 posts
 

I run Malwarebytes, uBlockOrigin and go though DuckDuck using Brave so I don't get many. 

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barts
714 posts
 

I always use Brave browser for the web, McAfee antivirus scans and removes all cookies, temp files etc once a week.  Amazing how much crap accumulates in a week.

Also this computer is for email and web only.  So if it really gets slammed hard, I just wipe it out and reload.

Second computer is for "important" stuff...hahahahaha.

Regards,

barts

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stereo5
6,390 posts
 

Even with Ad Aware Pro on my computer, I am all of a sudden getting pop ups only on this site.  My web browser deletes the cache whenever I close it out so it isn’t that.  Did Audiogon go to a new algorithm to force the advertisements down our throats?

digsmithd
913 posts
 

YES

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