Usually I use the forums from my phone and I don't have these issues there, but these last couple days I've been experiencing this when using the forums on Google chrome.
I noticed that if I closed a specific ad on the main page (I think on Thursday), it would take me off the forums onto a new page for an ad block. This really freaked me out, quite largle due to the fact I used to study computer science and am very conscious about malicious software such as viruses. I didn't click anything on the site obviously and just went straight back to the forums. I used the forums again from laptop on Friday and I didn't face these issues even when closing adverts. But just now I logged back on from laptop and it took me to a page again even though I swear this time I didn't even try to close an ad. (Edit to add: I think this happened at least 3 times on Thursday, and maybe once or twice just now I wasn't counting I just panicked again lol...)
I've been constantly running virus scans as I'm very scared this is going to damage my laptop. If anyone knows why this is happening and can suggest any solution I'd be greatful as there are a lot of things that are a lot easier to do from laptop than phone D:
I noticed that if I closed a specific ad on the main page (I think on Thursday), it would take me off the forums onto a new page for an ad block. This really freaked me out, quite largle due to the fact I used to study computer science and am very conscious about malicious software such as viruses. I didn't click anything on the site obviously and just went straight back to the forums. I used the forums again from laptop on Friday and I didn't face these issues even when closing adverts. But just now I logged back on from laptop and it took me to a page again even though I swear this time I didn't even try to close an ad. (Edit to add: I think this happened at least 3 times on Thursday, and maybe once or twice just now I wasn't counting I just panicked again lol...)
I've been constantly running virus scans as I'm very scared this is going to damage my laptop. If anyone knows why this is happening and can suggest any solution I'd be greatful as there are a lot of things that are a lot easier to do from laptop than phone D: