Wow so they're introducing that now D=

Chalk up another reason for me to eventually leave fa

"Eventually"

Because, you know, this still isn't enough.

There's been malware in the ads for ~3 years now, of course that isn't enough. :v FA is like the STD of the furry universe.

Uh, I think you're mistaken. There have definitely not been external ads for 3 years, much less ones riddled with viruses. The ad crap started with the IMVU buyout at the start of this year.

Well... That's one way to put it

>.<

oh no

really ?

Proof?

This is most likely from the stupid adult ads that they've been putting on the site now.

reasons why adblock is very important now exhibit A

I have adblock on. It somehow got around it.

eek, do you know for sure it was from fa?

The malware pieces my antivirus scan's found are, with one exception, in with FA cookies and files.

dang, i guess i should scan my stuff too..

Dude, adblock doesn't actually protect you from viruses. Adblock just stops the ad from being displayed, however scripts from the advertising company still run the background. The actual ad isn't always the payload but the script from whatever sketchy advertising firm is.

What you need to do is install noscript (it's for firefox and firefox based browsers like Palemoon, the google chrome version I have no experience with and have no idea how it works) and set it to block all scripts, but whitelist the sites themselves and any sort of domain associated with their content (like how twitter displays images from twimg.com). That way, the scripts from the actual site still load but the scripts from the ad company's servers are blocked. Plus, the ad won't load anyways so it works as an adblocker. I've been doing this for a while and can't remember the last time I got a virus from an ad. Since these new ads are adult ads extra caution needs to be taken, lest you end up with smileycentral toolbars and a sweet new fish screensaver that steals your credit card info.

I used NoScript before this happened. Best for privacy and protection~♥ Can we chuck in Ghostery while we are at it? I believe the viruses are possibly are either via googletag or google analytics based.

The reason I use a paid antivirus plus AdBlock.

Its been five years since I last got a virus/malware.

I have Adblock on. It somehow got around it.

I better use uBlock Origin instead, AdBlock now has "white lists", and if you don't disable that, some malware can get around it...

heard something about them allowing people to pay around the blacklist. (including Google Microsoft etc.)

In fact, that is true, that's why adblock takes also more CPU than Ublock...

Oh no....

How do you know FA was the source?
I would like to know this too.

The ads started popping up as I was browsing FA - the only other sites I had open at the time were Gmail and Picarto, neither of which I was using actively at that point. The malware my antivirus scan has picked up so far were mostly nestled in with FA cookies, with one hiding in another part of Firefox's files.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/.....move-adult-ads

about how long ago did it happen? as supposedly they were suppose dto fbeen removed temp till they could regulate the ads.