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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Beware of Increasingly Sophisticated Malware Infection Attempts
by
crazyideas21
on 17/02/2015, 05:54:00 UTC
The multifaucet.tk wallet search would redirect you to a third-party ad network. Subsequently, the ad network would redirect you to the destination page -- which, in this case, is the result of the wallet search. I'm in California; the ad network being shown is adf.ly. Depending on your geographic location, you may get a different ad network. These third-party sites generate revenue for multifaucet upon every ad view. This is paid for by the ad publisher. However, multifaucet has no control of what ads are being shown. To maximize their profits, ad publishers may show ads that may lead to malware, which promises higher margins than conventional ads.

In my case, I encountered the following page:

http://i.imgur.com/xzj6fWl.png