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Hello, 

About 2 weeks ago I was playing a normal online game. One of the ads (that i didn't click) appeared to have a popup or auto redirect to an obvious scam website which I closed out of without clicking on anything. I didn't have anything else open at the time. 
I did a full scan, offline scan. Antivirus picked up malware in a cached edge file. I don't have a link to the ad or website but i'm curious if the ads are screened at all and if there is a way to report them in the future. Or if anyone has faced any similar issue.

Thank you.  

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Rudy742 wrote:

Hello,

About 2 weeks ago I was playing a normal online game. One of the ads (that i didn't click) appeared to have a popup or auto redirect to an obvious scam website which I closed out of without clicking on anything. I didn't have anything else open at the time. 
I did a full scan, offline scan. Antivirus picked up malware in a cached edge file. I don't have a link to the ad or website but i'm curious if the ads are screened at all and if there is a way to report them in the future. Or if anyone has faced any similar issue.

Thank you.


The site doesn't approve specific ads but uses a third party as provider.

If you run across bad ads, they can be reported.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8647548-how-do-i-report-a-bad-ad

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Thank you!