Totaldatadefencereport.com Uses Fake Scares to Push Ads

Totaldatadefencereport dot com is yet another misleading website that pushes intrusive and potentially dangerous ads through the use of fake malware warnings.

Landing on the page, you will be greeted with images, doctored to resemble the interface windows and boxes of some legitimate antivirus application. Of course, the misleading page has nothing to do with the legitimate product and simply abuses its visual style and branding or imagery.

The images will contain fake warnings about at least half a dozen "viruses" that were found on your system. Remember that a website cannot scan your drives and cannot know if your computer is infected or not.

This is just a cheap trick to scare you into clicking the "allow" button and make you allow push notifications from the site. Misleading websites like Totaldatadefencereport dot com will often partner up with rogue ad networks.

This means that the ads that will be sent into your browser through push notifications may be sourced through such rogue ad networks and link to all sorts of unsafe locations, including scam or phishing pages, potentially unwanted program installers or other misleading pages.

You can easily steer clear of all this if you simply close the browser tab immediately next time you see an unfamiliar page telling you your system is infected with viruses.