winter wrote:
Butterflyhornet wrote:
I asked my dad about this and he says yes, neopets can give viruses. He said this because he looked up a few virus scanner sites where they list sites known to have viruses.
Any site can post anything they want. It doesn't necessarily have to be fact.
As for catching viruses, it's mostly because people don't update their computers. The whole point of updates is to patch unsecure parts of programs, fix exploitable coding, and to fix anything else that is broken. New viruses are written everyday to exploit different holes.
And Neopets isn't giving anyone viruses. It's the advertisements. Neopets isn't intentionally giving you advertisements. They just have a crappy ad agency.
Yes, it isn't Neopets, it is the advertisements, they give out spyware. To combat the problem very simply, use Adblock with Firefox, blocking anything malicious from my computer. Then, I ran Ad-Aware and Spybot to get rid of anything, along with hijackthis to check for other things, and I'm done.
I think Adblock is a better solution than Premium, for Adblock also blocks many other adverts from these agencies used all over the internet, just clicking Adblock, seeing the list, many are from the same company.
So in short, use Adblock on Firefox and run anti-virus software.
Precisely what I was thinking.
I second this. Every word of it has been true in my experience.
As for the software, that's exactly how I protect my computer. Firefox/Adblock, Spybot, Ad-Aware, and an up-to-date anti-virus program are all you need.
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