Title: Sneaky attempt at serving ads with malware
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Sneaky attempt at serving ads with malware

 *  [acroplex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acroplex/)
 * (@acroplex)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fun-and-effective/)
 * A few months ago I raved about Sweet Captcha’s efficiency at blocking spam. I
   can no longer recommend it, all thanks to a sneaky and dangerous decision by 
   its creators to serve pop-up and pop-under ads. Many of the ads contained malware,
   ransomware and other dangerous and disturbing content. I spent almost 2 days 
   trying to locate the culprit, and it was this plug in. You can read more info
   at [https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/06/sweetcaptcha-service-used-to-distribute-adware.html](https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/06/sweetcaptcha-service-used-to-distribute-adware.html)
 * My original review follows:
 * Fun and effective.
    It’s a fun and effective captcha, blocking all bot/spam comments
   100%. Giving 4 stars because lately there has been downtime of the service. This
   is not a self-contained plugin and it requires connectivity to the remote server
   to function.

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