A few weeks before Christmas, Forbes visitors with Ad block or uBlock enabled were suddenly greeted with a message telling them to disable their ad blocking programs if they wished to see any content...
In an unfortunate twist for Forbes, however users who did this were then almost immediately stung with dangerous advertising malware ‘pop-unders.’...
The malware infected ads were posted in order to infect computers, and then either steal personal information such as passwords and bank details, or to encrypt people’s hardware using ransomware.
http://news.filehippo.com/2016/01/forbes-asks-online-readers-disable-ad-blockers-hands-malware/
In an unfortunate twist for Forbes, however users who did this were then almost immediately stung with dangerous advertising malware ‘pop-unders.’...
The malware infected ads were posted in order to infect computers, and then either steal personal information such as passwords and bank details, or to encrypt people’s hardware using ransomware.
http://news.filehippo.com/2016/01/forbes-asks-online-readers-disable-ad-blockers-hands-malware/