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Old March 18th 19, 02:22 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Commander Kinsey
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Default Virus on page?

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:08:57 -0000, Carlos E.R. wrote:

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 :-)


I don't like pointless opening of new programs and windows. If I'm viewing some tourist info in a PDF, I'd rather it was just like another 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 It is possible that the link is outdated and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.


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.


The UK is vastly overpopulated. The large cities like Edinburgh and London are ridiculous, they've actually banned cars altogether in a lot of places, contrary to the wishes of all the high street shops which have lost most of their business due to government cluelessness.

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/


I wasn't sure if you started counting at the PDF link or the links from the PDF :-)

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.


I did not click, and I would like to think Opera would never load anything without a click. Also AVG does block dodgy sites.

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.


Try them with one of those scary monster pages that growls and jumps about when you're watching closely. Youtube is full of folk falling off their chairs.
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