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Originally posted by shelven
I mean specifically in this situation. I know that an ad blocking software doesn't also protect against viruses, but the whole thing going on with this website right now seems to be about the ads themselves containing the viruses. So if the ads are blocked, aren't I theoretically safe from getting the viruses that come from the ads?
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My guess is Ad Block will remove the links from the site before the browser sends a request. The reason people are getting the warning is the virus protection is catching it before Ad Blocker removes it. Plus I do not know exactly how Ad Blocker works, if they leave the elements in the DOM the virus/malware software again can pick them up.
The way a web page works is the HTML is sent to the browser and then the browser starts to request from the server all the CSS/JS/Images that it can't find in the cache. So to load a avg page on this site the browser might make 80-100 requests to various servers because a lot of stuff is linked. Not everything is hosted on ATRL.
If ATRL was smart they would create an Amazon S3 storage and place all their images/css and JS there and use it was a CDN. It would release a lot of pressure from their server. Maybe it would just cost to much for them to do that I don't know. Plus I don't think their scripts are that large from what I can tell. They should look in to S3 I use it.
