Originally Posted by TwinCities

He loves Minecraft and likes downloading and installing new maps to play. Many of the actual downloads come through Adfly (or similar) and they put the real download links out of sight, instead, have fake "download now" ad banners leading to adware. It turns out since he is 9 and not seasoned to spot trickery, he was duped into clicking the wrong things and it hosed his computer for a few days so I essentially had enough and founds Ghostery. He has not had a problem since!!