On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 03:26:19 -0000, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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

Technically yes, but the PDF is displayed in my browser and has links to click just like a webpage.

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 It is possible that the link is outdated and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.

It must be a typing error, it would never have been spelt thsitle.

Anyway hopefully they will update it now I've warned them. I'm surprised nobody else came across it before, parking in Stirling is so bad you have to research first! Even if you pay, hardly anywhere allows more than a 2 hour stay.

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

You mean http://www.thethistles.com/ ? It should redirect to https://www.thistlesstirling.com

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.

I have a couple of adblockers and see no ads there at all. Just a page about the shopping centre with moving graphics saying what they sell.

Or did you mean the dodgy link? I got a loud bleep, and a dialog box saying click to update, your windows is out of date and you have a nasty virus or something. I closed it before reading it fully!

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

I've never had a bleep like that before. It sounds like the BBC2 test signal.

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 :-)

A parked parking lot :-)