We all know when an offer is just too good to be true. Yet, somewhere inside of each of us is a pathological need to find out for sure. We know that nobody is giving away an expensive tablet computer and there are no free trips to the French Riviera, but our wish that such things were true is so strong that we take chances to at least prolong the fan- wetasy.This is a major problem on the internets.

Marketing people know this characteristic of human nature all too well. They exploit us with their marketing prowess, and their tech people take the opportunity to exploit our computers. Clicking an advertiser’s link takes you directly into their world where they have control.They will ask for information about you, obtrusive and inappropriate questions about They who you are, where you are, how to contact you. They do this in the guise of a first step toward obtaining your prize. If you follow through and provide them will all of your information, they push it farther, they want to know just how much you are willing to give up in pursuit of your desire. Of course, they will try to sell you something, ask you for more names and information on your associates.

All the while, the site itself is most likely a virtual land mine of malicious code. Many of these sites install scripts onto your system that serve more applications to you without your knowledge, e.g. downloaders, system Trojans, RATs, browser and search engine hi-jacks. We will never get our free item. There is no free item. We have to find a way to rewire our brains in a way that we will accept the fact that even a shiny scam is still just a scam. In the internet age, advertisers are afforded new levels of control over consumers, and they can and will use every unethical trick in the book to take everything they can from you once they have you in their world. The most severe effect of this problem on our internets is the fact that malware spreads like wildfire from these sites. Advertisers are the biggest market for bots, and they will almost always serve you with malware which will shanghai your system into a bot network. These bots are a major problem. The bigger they get the more dangerous they are to our cyber world. While it may seem like a personal issue, chances are when we infect ourselves with malware from an advertisers site, we are promoting the viral spread of malicious code across the entire network.

The way to avoid this is very simple. It only requires that we use our common sense when we read advertisements online. If the ad is offering something that is too good to be true, it is not true. If they are willing to lie to you to get you to click a link, they are willing to exploit you in other ways once you get there. Ads from well-known companies offering good deals, but clearly not too good to be true, should be taken on a case by case basis. We should take care to see where the link leads. If the advertisement says Chevrolet, but the link leads to istealfromu.ru, you know it’s not taking you to General Motors to shop for a new vehicle color. In order to slow the spread of malware, we must be real- to istic and aware (with a healthy dose of skepticism) when reading advertisements on the internets.
We can stop a significant amount of malware from spreading by simply being vigilant in this area. Awareness is the greatest tool in our arsenal against malware, and with a little effort we can put many of these malicious coders out of business.

source: https://web.facebook.com/forum9ja/posts/1236078389787292