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Technical Discussion / Re: Do you use a password manager?
« on: Today at 01:21:03 AM »Depending on which sites you visit, they may load scripts (which could be malicious or not) from adware, then display fake antivirus ads with urgent call-to-action messages designed to trigger people's fear responses.You wont get a virus by watching instagram or tiktok videos.
However, you can click in a malicius link from an instagram account, click something wrong and then boooom.
It just takes one mistake to lose your funds.
I had an experience a few months ago, and it was a very funny one, though, and how it occurred is what I am trying to understand till this moment because it looks like a potential threat to my device. I was watching video and it happens that it was when I was about tapping the screen to activate a command that was when an add popped up and it happened like I clicked the ads and it was just loading and loading without stopping and immediately I had too forcefully switch of my phone to forstall any further actions or command prompt it would activate so it doesn't cause harm to my phone and the funny thing is that I did not really see what I clicked and it just happened like that. That was how I escaped what I had no idea about, and I still could not explain what I clicked then till this very moment.
You really have to be careful with this kind of thing. My grams recently had her mobile device compromised this exact way. We took it to a repair shop, but just days later, the phone showed the same problem again... She will have to buy another smartphone.