Mike! Porn site! I can't believe this. When I click on my links in the OP and images from img.com are the uploads of my gun. If I can't get this under control, I am gonna ask Dave to delete this thread until I can get this under control! PORN!!!! I am very embarrassed! Very!
The annoying pop-up/forwarded/reloaded/ads/etc have been either been put on the targeted (file/image hosting) site and/or it's advertising (via cookies or directly added code). Anyway, protective combinations of antivirus, anti-spyware software on your computer/phone plus pop-up & auto-refreshing blocking settings within that software (ie Norton AV, Avast AV, Bit-defender AV, Microsoft security, etc) as well as in your web browser's settings can help protect you.
Do that in addition to keeping latest updates ONLY from verified sources (Microsoft, Apple, Dell, Adobe, etc.) as well as regular anti nasties scans, using proper 2 part ID/Password/phone txt/etc setup & USED with different updated passwords &/or id verifier apps can help keep your personal data secure.
You WILL want to use a powerful encrypted Password Manager to keep the increasingly complex IDs/passwords/codes/websites at hand and safe.
I am using the Norton Password Manager app & their Lifelock Dark Web, etc. capabilities to manage mine as well as find any occurrences of my ID/Password?personal info on the web.
This setup allows for automatically keeping all your devices in sync & up to date.
There are other good sets of protective software available from other companies.
Yes, things are getting much more complex & my Email/txt accounts are bombarded up to 100 times a day per account/id even tho I block automatically sending responses to the sender.
The spammers/scammers (Chinese, Russian, other semi-organized groups) are using software to generate tons of this stuff usually with slightly different typing, unique non-existent sending web-servers * such. Any embedded pictures/pixels or attached files can automatically/silently return a signal that "You Exist" and are added to the many Very Active scammer/spanner distribution lists in the dark web.
Whatever you do;
DO NOT RESPOND or OPEN LINKS/ATTACHED files in your mail.
DO NOT answer any unknown/suspicious phone calls. Let them go to voicemail & respond only to the legitimate ones when you are certain who/what it is.
These are just a different way for similar scammers to confirm your existence to be added/sold to same nasties.
Sorry for ramble but ignorance is not blissfulness these days & intensities & sophistication of attacks will be increasing exponentially with current & upcoming tensions.
