Cleaning up a customer's PC, I made the mistake of leaving a tab open on Yahoo's home page. Only 1 minute later: malvertized. Sunuva...
I did it again to pin down the cause, & indeed it's Yahoo's ads breaking out, taking over the page, & loading scary messages that make it difficult to leave.
I can't stress enough, folks, that an ad blocker is Internet SECURITY software.
@arielmt What do you do about anti-adblocks like Admiral popping up?
@Tathar For that, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.
If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.
