How to Avoid Adware, Malware And Tech scams On Porn Sites

It’s very common to suddenly get redirected to an adult website or even if you are visiting them intentionally. But there are various things which you need to be careful while visiting any porn websites.

As such pages are loaded with numerous advertisements, adult contents and small flash videos playing alongside the page. This happens most of the time while surfing the web.

However, it seems very annoying.

But do you know that this can also drop any malware to your computer system.

Yes.. it’s true.

Malware, adware or PUA are capable of completely ruining your privacy and security. They can use click bot tactics to increase their click of malicious ads, drop ad-driven programs. And even keyloggers that silently steal your personal data like logins and card numbers.

Beware! Adult sites are spreading malicious program via fake media players

Adult sites are one of the biggest sources from where your computer can get infected.

Even if you don’t click any link, still it may randomly redirect you to fake and unknown pages. Some of them may appear legit that urges you to download/update any media player.

At times, you visit any adult sites to watch any videos, it will prompt you about videos that cannot be played as the player needs to be updated or you need to install a player. 

If you click on the recommended link or button that recommends you to install such programs, then you could run into big trouble. 

It is not recommended to take any actions on such websites. They are just a piece of malware or any potentially harmful program that will mess up your entire browser. 

The authors behind this are just tempting you to install their fake program that can be in the form of media player, flash player updates, browser extensions, add-ons and so on. 

If you are looking out for any adult content make sure you don’t click on any such links or any pop-up that says can not display the content, install video/flash player.

How can they trick you?

At times, you visit any adult sites to watch any videos, it will prompt you about videos that cannot be played as the player needs to be updated or you need to install a player. 

If you click on the recommended link or button that recommends you to install such programs, then you could run into big trouble. This is just a trap to make you install any adware, PUA, crypto-miners or Trojans. 

Adware or Browser hijackers will modify the browser settings including default homepage, search engine and new tab URL will always readdress to risky webpages. 

Thus, each time you will start browsing, all your searches will redirect either by yahoo powered search engines or any third-party website. Also your browser will flood with non-stop advertisements. Unknown extensions and ad-supported programs will automatically get install on your browser as well as PC. 

Delivering Tech Scam Pop-ups

Besides attempting to install fake or adware-type applications, the porn websites also causes redirects and shows pop-up related to tech scams. The pop-ups starts flooding on the screen showing warnings like your computer is at risk or infected with malware.

You should never trust such warnings as they are completely fake. They are designed by cyber criminals to make users believe that their system is infected with some Trojan like Zeus. They even stop users from closing the page and asks users to call on the provided number.

However, by calling it connects to some sophisticated person that pretends to be a Microsoft certified technician. And is willing to assist you by conducting a remote session. And will trick your to show more issues by installing some fake scanner. Further, they try to convince users that their system is about to crash down, and needs to be fixed immediately. For this, the user need to pay a one-time subscription fee for the maintenance.

Do Not Call Such Numbers and Never Pay Them!!!!

What harm can Potentially harmful programs do?

Adware or Potentially harmful programs are designed to take over the browser and inject advertisements. Thus, the very first symptoms of your browser infected with adware or PUA is excessive amounts of ads appearing to the pages you browse.

This further causes redirects that happen simultaneously one after another. As a single malicious link is enough to ruin your entire computer system. To sum up, here is the list of all the consequences.

• You can see fake tech scam pop-ups that say your computer is infected. And you need to call on the provided tech support number for assistance. Well, this is just a trick to make you pay for their fake services or urge you to buy any rogue security application.
• May install any in-browser crypto-currency miner. The miners uses your system resources like CPU, electricity and network connection to mine for digital currency without your knowledge.
• May drop any spyware that keeps a keen watch on your browsing activities. In order to collect all your surfing data including:
  • IP addresses,
  • geolocation,
  • search queries,
  • browser type and version,
  • internet provider,
  • OS related info,
  • viewed sites and their logins.
• Host inside your computer system and open the backdoor access for hackers to control your system remotely.

All these actions are illegitimate and can cause severe harm to you and your system.

How To Avoid Them?

• The very first thing which you should do to stay protected is installing a strong anti-virus program. By using that will keep scanning your device regularly to alert you whenever any harmful program attempts to breach your security.
• Do not install any Flash Player, media players or browser extension from such websites;
• Don’t be too hurry to click on any ads that appear to good to be true;
• Do not click on “ok”, “install” or ” scan” kind of buttons along with pop-ups saying your computer has virus or so.

If you don’t still have one, then we recommend you having a full-version anti-virus protection for your computer.

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