catermune: Take a look at the
Real-World Protection Tests at av-comparatives.net. Looking through the past several monthly tests will give you a pretty good idea of how the various products compare to each other.
drmike: av-comparatives.org, not av-comparatives.net
Normally I wouldn't mention this since there's a redirect but the SSL certificate on the *.org is self signed and at least Firefox won't allow access.
kohlrak: Those are the sidewalks near puddles. So is Yahoo, MLB, etc. MLB is known to have dangerous ads, too. Heard someone got ransomware from Yahoo news.
drmike: I learned a long time ago that you're going to get butt covering in cases like this but this did happen at least once:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2837572/massive-malvertising-campaign-on-yahoo-aol-and-other-sites-delivers-ransomware.html I've heard more issues with ransomeware since then with yahoo specifically. Yahoo is a company that was once popular, but, frankly, everyone and their brother knows at this point is one of those places that refuses to learn it's lesson. It's been hit so many times, and they keep promising to fix things, but never do.
I don't want to say that a website should be responsible for all user content, but, hey, if you're taking money from the content (ads), then maybe you should be, especially since you're actively and intentionally interacting with them.
