- Wait, what have you installed lately? And when did it happen

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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.


- 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.

- Well, it's advertising, what's wrong with that?

— Yes, that such additional advertising can not only south africa whatsapp data 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 bicycle 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.