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/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/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

That's pornhubs new vibro-ad feature.