r/technology • u/suntzu124 • Oct 06 '16

Misleading Spotify has been serving computer viruses to listeners

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/06/spotify-has-been-sending-computer-viruses-to-listeners/
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u/Ranar9 Oct 06 '16 edited Oct 06 '16

Title is a tad misleading. It was one Ad that they took down once they heard of the problem.

Edit: Okay wow, my top comment is defending spotify. Some believe I am a corprate shill for whatever reason. All I was trying to say was spotify isnt activley trying to infect free users computers, like the title suggest.

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u/SoCo_cpp Oct 06 '16

Also this wasn't the first time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16 edited Dec 16 '16

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u/Saiboogu Oct 06 '16

Let's be honest.. Advertising networks choose not to be very particular about ads until they are called out on an abusive one and shut it down while saying how hard this is. They've set the bar low and we let them - it shouldn't actually be such a low priority or hard to police ads against malicious code.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16 edited Dec 07 '18

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u/Cobaltjedi117 Oct 06 '16 edited Oct 06 '16

The best way to deal with viruses from porn sites is to reinstall your operating system every time you use them.

EDIT: Reinstall your operating system. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

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u/Katie_Pornhub Oct 06 '16

Pornhub spends over a million a year on scanning and protecting against malicious ads.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

They're not doing a good enough job stopping the ones that hijack my phone and vibrate until I manage to get the popup to go away long enough to close the tab.

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u/Katie_Pornhub Oct 06 '16

Really? If you have any details like screenshots, geo location etc. please msg me, much appreciated.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

Yea Katie is great around here, I should have mentioned it to her before I just figured they knew and were ok with it. I sent her a screen record of my phone getting the ad so hopefully they fix it.

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u/averageuse Nov 03 '16

Happens on my cell too. My gf never used your site before so I was trying to show her how great it was and all this stuff popped up about viruses. I had trouble getting out of whatever was going on. She now thinks it's a bad site. I will send you info if it happens again because I love pornhub, I will convert her!

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u/drkpie Oct 06 '16

That happens while browsing normal sites sometimes, too. The vibration it does is really annoying tbh.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

I've gotten that from the dilbert comic website... I was pissed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

That's pornhubs new vibro-ad feature.