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Old March 19th 19, 08:36 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Chris
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Default Virus on page?

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!Â* 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?Â* It just bleeps very loudly through the
speakers and asks me to click to update something.
Question 2) Can this be reported to someone?Â* 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 It is possible that the link is outdated and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.Â* I'm
surprised nobody else came across it before, parking in Stirling is so
bad you have to research first!Â* Even if you pay, hardly anywhere allows
more than a 2 hour stay.


Wow. I have never seen something like that here


To be fair there's not a lot to do in Stirling so 2 hours is plenty

There is the rather magnificent Stirling Castle, nearby, and there's plenty
of parking. Some of it free IIRC
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Castle

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