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🎓 Purpose

Website ads and content, including legitimate ones, can be compromised (or injected) with malicious code that puts your system at risk of infection.

👥 Audience

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(question) Initial considerations

  • Some webpage functionality can be impacted through the use of an ad-blocker. If you encounter issues on a page you need to access and trust, try pausing the ad-blocker or granting an exception for the page, rather than disabling the blocker.


\uD83D\uDCD8 What can I do?

🔗 Install ad-blocking software (extension) for your browser.

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Michael Laurentius

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✉️ Additional help

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https://uoft-infosec-cf.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISH/pages/4948958/Additional+help#%F0%9F%9B%A1%EF%B8%8F-Information-Security-(IS)

https://uoft-infosec-cf.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISH/pages/4948958/Additional+help#%F0%9F%96%A5%EF%B8%8F-Information-Technology-(IT)

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https://security.utoronto.ca/services/research-information-security-program/


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