Anyone Else Having this Problem with Scam Sites

[Caden]

So every now and again all my OTT tabs I have open will turn into the picture I took above. The link completely changed as if there was no sign I was ever on OTT.

To be clear I don't use Norton nor have I ever. It is obviously a scam but completely changing the website with no prompting is a new one for me. One time I tried clicking the back arrow to get back to OTT and I got redirected to the Walmart home page. Needless to say I do not interact with "Norton" and immediately close the tab.

Just curious if anyone else has experienced this? I use the free version with the adds.

 

[skeets]

Only on the porn sites,,, errr so I have heard

 

[Bee-Positive]

I'm using DuckDuckGo, no problems so far. Not a Mac though.

 

[NCL4701]

I occasionally access OTT from our Mac. When I do, it’s via Firefox and I’ve never had a problem.

Routinely access OTT from iPhone via Duck Duck Go. No issues. Used Brave for a little while but preferred Duck Duck Go for reasons I’ve forgotten. Used to use Safari but the site was unusable with Safari on iPhone due to banner ads covering entire page, random reloads preventing both scrolling and posting, etc.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

You need to install / use a good malware / virus program and a pop up blocker.
I have 2 computers one with everything on it and one with nothing on it.
I'm always amazed at how much junk hit's the one with nothing on it.
It comes from everywhere.
Norton and Mcafee are 2 of the biggest scammed fraud sites out there.

 

[Caden]

Mcafee

I see that one frequently as well. Any recommendations on a good pop up blocker?

unusable with Safari on iPhone

Agreed, I had the same trouble with that.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I see that one frequently as well. Any recommendations on a good pop up blocker?



Agreed, I had the same trouble with that.

That depends on which browser your using?

 

[Caden]

Been using Chrome primarily.

 

[mikester]

https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-BE3600-Portable-Dual-Band-Computer

Install OpenWRT on your router. The link above is for a decently fast router that comes with OpenWRT installed.

Now install Adguard Home on the OpenWRT router so you can use DNS block lists to stop/block spamware/scamware

GitHub - AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome: Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server. Contribute to AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

NOTE: Adguard Home and OpenWRT are open source and free.

Next, BLOCK all ipv6 network traffic on your LAN/WiFi. The reason for blocking ipv6 is to force all network traffic to use your OpenWRT router as the DNS server. If you don’t do this step then many newer networked devices running ipv6 will cheerfully bypass your firewall and DNS server settings because IPv6 will want to configure every device as a IPv6 server/relay. IPv6 is sneaky and assumes that everything on your firewalled LAN should have direct internet access and be controlled by scammers and spammers.

Warning - using this method isn’t hands free and you can and probably will break many websites and services that rely on spamware/scamware to work aka goggle, fakebook, amazone. On the plus side all the devices on your network will suddenly seem much faster because 60% of your network traffic going to scammers and spammers trying to track and manipulate you will disappear.

Makes sure to purge all your devices caches to block old connections from reusing old data.