On 18/03/2019 00.15, Commander Kinsey wrote:
WARNING!* Do not click the misspelt link below (between asterisks)
unless you know your computer is protected.

On Stirling Council's parking page
https://my.stirling.gov.uk/media/442...park-guide.pdf
There is a link to the thistle centre car park, which they have misspelt
as **** http://www.thethsitles.com/ **** instead of
http://www.thethistles.com/

Question 1) Is this a virus?* It just bleeps very loudly through the
speakers and asks me to click to update something.
Question 2) Can this be reported to someone?* The company they rent the
domain name from perhaps?

(I've already advised Stirling Council to correct their spelling error)

The first page is a PDF, not a web page; and looking at the properties
it was generated on 2014. It is possible that the link is outdated and
now points to somewhere else than intended, because of a typing error or
no maintenance of the site.

That second link displays nothing in my machine (Linux). But it does
load something.

Disabling the addblocker, it goes to http://mediadiscovery.net/, and
just reads "Sponsored content". Disabling addblocker on on that, then I
get a page full of adds, surely different than those you get. Possibly
one of those adds you get triggered the blast (maybe from your
antivirus?). I have heard that blast on a friend's laptop once, and
scared me ****less. I must say that you guys on Windows get more fun
that us poor lads on Linux :-P

A reload of http://ww1.thethsitles.com/ displays content typical of a
parked domain. Something about Albania and fraud protection.


So what you should do is tell the people of
https://my.stirling.gov.uk/media/4425/9824-final-new-car-park-guide.pdf to
correct the spelling - and if there is no spelling error, remove the
link altogether, as the parking lot "The Thistles" doesn't own the link
they point people to, it has been parked (http://www.thethsitles.com/).

Or whatever the correct wording in English is :-)


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Cheers, Carlos.