High-risk website is blocked.

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Hi when I'm working online I keep getting signals that a high risk website is blocked. This is distracting. I've run a Sophos scan and it's clean. I'm not aware of trying to access any dubious sites (I might simply be on a library catalogue or BBC News). How do I get rid of these messages?

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QC · Answer

Hello margarette lincoln , 
 TANSTAAFL (look it up if necessary) - apparently free services must be funded by some means. Placing ads is one source of earnings. Website operators selling ad space have limited control over the actual source of these ads. Additionally legitimate links on a page (e.g. a library catalogue) can links to an otherwise reputable site which has been compromised (as it's occasionally the case for e.g. smaller non-profit organizations). It's not telling you that you are (directly) trying to access a dubious site nevertheless it informs you that something on the page is not necessarily clean (and the message indicates that whatever it could have been has been blocked before it had the chance to get on your computer - therefore the scans are clean). 
 You should not turn off the component which tries to protect you. Whether you - or someone else - can turn off the messages depends on the product you are using. 
 Christian