On 18/03/2019 13.40, Commander Kinsey wrote:
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.
Depends on the local configuration - in my machine it doesn't :-)
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 It is possible that the link is outdated and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.
Wow. I have never seen something like that here - well, thinking, there
have been days in Madrid that I was not able to go to the place I wanted
at all, no parking or collapsed roads. Popular events. I have not heard
of reserving in advance a parking slot, but maybe possible.
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
I mean http://www.thethsitles.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?*
Yes.
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saying click to update, your windows is out of date and you have a nasty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!
I have seen that on somebody else's computer. I think it was an
unfiltered advert. And clicking there would be dangerous.
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.
Yep. I jumped off the sofa when I heard that. The other person was
accustomed to it and just clicked away.
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 :-)
:-D
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Cheers, Carlos.