Virus on Gametrailers

    I've been hit with a virus twice whilst looking at GT today, probably imbedded in the ads somewhere. My AV killed them both straight away. Has anyone else had the same problem?

    I use Ad Blocker Plus along with Noscript and Flashblock, kind of impossible for me to get infected that way unless I accidentally enable the script/ad with the malware. Everyone should install these if they use FF.

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    ":2hhi96ay]Ads are so last decade dude, install AdBlock Plus.

    Yes! I was using a friends laptop that didn't have adblock installed the other day, and was shocked to see ads on youtube and gametrailers

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    Kind of shocking what shit shows up in ads on such big sites.

    Well, websites like Gametrailers use an special society for having ads. Gametrailers don't control exactly his adds, only the global themes.

    So Gametrailers is not in fault, it's the advertiser provider the problem.

    Well, adblocks of course is the best way to avoid that.

    Quote from Bunglo

    I use Ad Blocker Plus along with Noscript and Flashblock, kind of impossible for me to get infected that way unless I accidentally enable the script/ad with the malware. Everyone should install these if they use FF.

    How do you regulate what gets shown or not? Must be a pain in the arse to view Youtube with all those turned on surely?

    Quote from D3ads

    How do you regulate what gets shown or not? Must be a pain in the arse to view Youtube with all those turned on surely?

    It was at first, I'm used to it now though. Script wise, youtube is pretty simple as I temp allow youtube.com and one other script needed for full video functionality. Once those are enabled through Noscript, I still need to give Flashblock the OK to run the video (or any other flash driven aspects of the site). If I do enable a script that runs ads or whatever, Adblock Plus will kill it 9/10 times, though there are the few pop up windows that slip through, especially the ones that are enabled via clicking anywhere on the site. When that happens, WOT will give me a warning page allowing me to continue or exit, assuming the site has a bad enough rating.

    The 'WTF do I do now' aspect was a bit overwhelming at first, using them everyday though makes it second nature at this point.

    Quote from Froyok

    Mainly for the extensions.

    Exactly, although my most important addon is XMarks, which by the looks of things is already supported for chrome as well, so I might reconsider a change.

    I had no idea, xmarks works pretty well.

    Anyway, testing chrome here, the UI is pretty much the same as FF3, but shit it sure is faster.

    Yeah it's lovely. I switched from Firefox to Chrome about half a year ago after being disappointed with 4.0, and I've never looked back. Most extensions I had were just clutter to be honest, and everything I need Chrome does out the box. Also it's almost like it's reading my mind because it's so usable and allows me to do what I want to do so easily.

    Performance-wise it just blows Firefox et al out the water.

    I think it's very telling that Firefox, Opera, etc are all basing their designs and features on Chrome (but not doing it as well).

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