uac.advertising.com

I installed adblock just now (go ahead and ask me why I didn't already have it, I don't know) because the DWForums home keeps making avast! go bing bing bing threat detected with uac.advertising.com. Apparently the UAC got bored with their helleporters and decided to start a virus on eBay.

But yes, anyone without adblock or good antivirus, watch out!

What's UAC Advertising.com?

A not so friendly advertising company I am inclined to believe.

google

I've long since gone past ad blockers and just run NoScript on most sites, as well as FlashBlock. 90% of ads online disappeared and everything else magically stopped auto-loading their Flash widgets/players. It made the web a nice place again -- well, except for all the times I have to poke around in the NoScript menu trying to find the right domain to activate to load the site's content.

I love NoScript unfortunately Chrome doesn't support it.

FlashBlock is pretty good but I get sick of having sites load messed up.

with noscript, I think you can just right click a page 'temporarily allow all this page', then make permanent if desired.

betterprivacy is another firefox addon

I love NoScript, I can browse any website without fear of spyware or viruses wrecking my computer.

According to the Avast forums it's a false positive.

Quasar said:

According to the Avast forums it's a false positive.

Pffft. Prepare for Martian Buddy pop-ups out the ass.

Just added it to my /etc/hosts file. Already got a few thousand entries, good to add one more.

Technician said:

Pffft. Prepare for Martian Buddy pop-ups out the ass.

The devil douches already sent me a crate with 4 fucking chainguns in it. What the hell am I gonna do with this crap?

Put it on its stand and point it upward. Instant pottery wheel!

I still think Vista's UAC is by that evil corporation.

http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman

gggmork said:

with noscript, I think you can just right click a page 'temporarily allow all this page', then make permanent if desired.

As of a few versions ago, you can middle click the noscript logo on the information bar to temporarily allow the current page.

neubejiita said:

Just added it to my /etc/hosts file. Already got a few thousand entries, good to add one more.

I'm glad that you told us it was your /etc/hosts and not, you know, that you used an easy-to-use, popular program/browser that maintains an up-to-date blacklist and phishing/malware protection.