- Well, it's advertising, what's wrong with that?
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:04 am
Fairy tales about safety: Intrusive advertising
Vladimir Bezmaly | 21.06.2017
- Hello, Potapych!
- Hello, Khryusha! What brought you here this time?
— I don't understand what happened! The start page in the browser on the laptop suddenly changed and the default search engine became different. The Hare came, well, you know him.
- And what?
— I sat there and groaned, but I still couldn’t change everything back. I don’t understand what happened.
- Wait, what have you installed lately? And when did it happen?
- It happened about a week ago, but the last time I installed the program was a long time ago, about a month ago. Zayats installed it for me. I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff. He installed a recipe book for me. You know, I like to cook.
- Stolen?
- No, it's free. It also said that you'd be shown ads from time to time. But it doesn't bother me, right? But the recipes are good.
- Oh, Khryusha! Judging by everything, you've clearly been infected with some kind of software for displaying ads. It remains to be seen what kind.
— Yes, that such additional advertising can not only show you where and what to buy, with its help it can track you and record what sites you visit, what you look at, in order to push your advertising on you.
— Yeah, that's what I'm seeing, I just had to look for a morocco mobile database for my nephew and now I'm being followed by advertisements for bicycles, spare parts, etc. And not only in the browser on my computer, but also on my phone.
— Exactly! But in fact, such software can download and install browser extensions and execute any code on the infected device, turning this advertising application into an excellent way to install Trojans. It can be used in a variety of ways — mainly to install bad programs on the computer and intercept important information or to infect it with various types of malware.
- Oh, what should I do?
- Bring the laptop here, we'll check it and set up protection against potentially unwanted programs for you. At the same time, I'll take a look at what you have there and how it is. In short, go home for the laptop!
This is how this story ended happily for Khryusha. And have you installed protection against unwanted advertising on your computer? Not yet? Then it's high time!
Vladimir Bezmaly | 21.06.2017
- Hello, Potapych!
- Hello, Khryusha! What brought you here this time?
— I don't understand what happened! The start page in the browser on the laptop suddenly changed and the default search engine became different. The Hare came, well, you know him.
- And what?
— I sat there and groaned, but I still couldn’t change everything back. I don’t understand what happened.
- Wait, what have you installed lately? And when did it happen?
- It happened about a week ago, but the last time I installed the program was a long time ago, about a month ago. Zayats installed it for me. I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff. He installed a recipe book for me. You know, I like to cook.
- Stolen?
- No, it's free. It also said that you'd be shown ads from time to time. But it doesn't bother me, right? But the recipes are good.
- Oh, Khryusha! Judging by everything, you've clearly been infected with some kind of software for displaying ads. It remains to be seen what kind.
— Yes, that such additional advertising can not only show you where and what to buy, with its help it can track you and record what sites you visit, what you look at, in order to push your advertising on you.
— Yeah, that's what I'm seeing, I just had to look for a morocco mobile database for my nephew and now I'm being followed by advertisements for bicycles, spare parts, etc. And not only in the browser on my computer, but also on my phone.
— Exactly! But in fact, such software can download and install browser extensions and execute any code on the infected device, turning this advertising application into an excellent way to install Trojans. It can be used in a variety of ways — mainly to install bad programs on the computer and intercept important information or to infect it with various types of malware.
- Oh, what should I do?
- Bring the laptop here, we'll check it and set up protection against potentially unwanted programs for you. At the same time, I'll take a look at what you have there and how it is. In short, go home for the laptop!
This is how this story ended happily for Khryusha. And have you installed protection against unwanted advertising on your computer? Not yet? Then it's high time!