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  #1  
Old March 18th 19, 12:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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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)
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Old March 18th 19, 02:01 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| 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/
|

Redirects to d-h.st, owned by
Jared Caliendo
tech-name: Jared (STR52541AD6B8680)
tech-street: 4850 Galendo St.
tech-city: Woodland Hills
tech-state:
tech-zip: 91364
tech-country: US I'm not certain, but it looks like a page that's
nothing more
than a Google adsense ad. In other words, Mr. Caliendo
seems to be trying to make a few dollars by buying near
miss domains and redirecting visitors to an ad.

But it's possible that it' more sneaky than that. The
script is obfuscated.

| Question 2) Can this be reported to someone? The company they rent the
domain name from perhaps?
|
What you can do is stop enabling javascript willy nilly.
Use something like NoScript and only allow script to run
when necessary, and then only from specific domains
that need to use it.

I would never click something like that if I just had
anti-virus or other "protection". The only protection is
to disable script, Flash, Java, or anything else executable
online.


  #3  
Old March 18th 19, 02:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:01:24 -0000, Mayayana wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| 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/
|

Redirects to d-h.st, owned by
Jared Caliendo
tech-name: Jared (STR52541AD6B8680)
tech-street: 4850 Galendo St.
tech-city: Woodland Hills
tech-state:
tech-zip: 91364
tech-country: US


His surname is rather similar to his street name. Probably faked. I used to have three domain names, all with fake names and addresses, mainly to stop people finding out my real life identity.

I'm not certain, but it looks like a page that's
nothing more
than a Google adsense ad. In other words, Mr. Caliendo
seems to be trying to make a few dollars by buying near
miss domains and redirecting visitors to an ad.


If it's Google adsense, you'd think Google would remove it after a complaint.

But it's possible that it' more sneaky than that. The
script is obfuscated.

| Question 2) Can this be reported to someone? The company they rent the
domain name from perhaps?
|
What you can do is stop enabling javascript willy nilly.
Use something like NoScript and only allow script to run
when necessary, and then only from specific domains
that need to use it.


I've never actually had anything nasty happen to my computer. I think between my browser, AV, firewall, adblockers, malware protection program, something always stops it. And usually such a site is only clicked on if you're daft enough to click a link in a dodgy email, which I don't. This was very unusual, in that my local council had misspelt something.

I would never click something like that if I just had
anti-virus or other "protection". The only protection is
to disable script, Flash, Java, or anything else executable
online.


But don't loads of legitimate sites need those? I'd end up with constant pestering "do you want to enable Java" notices. Youtube uses Flash for example. Many pages use Flash.
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Old March 18th 19, 03:14 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| But don't loads of legitimate sites need those? I'd end up with constant
pestering "do you want to enable Java" notices. Youtube uses Flash for
example. Many pages use Flash.
|

Suit yourself. I've never needed Flash. I doubt youtube
requires Flash. It's being phased out. Even Adobe, who
make it, are phasing it out -- at the end of next year.

2015. 8 of the top ten online exploits used Flash:
https://www.recordedfuture.com/top-v...bilities-2015/

2016. 6 for Flash. 2 for IE. 1 Silverlight. 1 Windows:
https://www.recordedfuture.com/top-v...bilities-2016/

Flash probably isn't exploited as much now, only because
less people have it. Other big exploits are Wordpress hacks,
jquery vulnerabilities, etc. Virtually all possible attacks
require script.


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Old March 18th 19, 03:39 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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In article , Commander Kinsey
wrote:

I used to
have three domain names, all with fake names and addresses, mainly to stop
people finding out my real life identity.


that's against the rules. if you want to hide your true identity, use a
privacy service, which nearly all registrars offer.
  #6  
Old March 18th 19, 03:04 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:01:24 -0000, Mayayana wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| 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/
|

Redirects to d-h.st, owned by
Jared Caliendo
tech-name: Jared (STR52541AD6B8680)
tech-street: 4850 Galendo St.
tech-city: Woodland Hills
tech-state:
tech-zip: 91364
tech-country: US


Is it not possible to report it to whoever he bought the domain from? If I buy a domain name, I get it from a registrar. If I did naughty things on that site, surely the registrar could delete my account?
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Old March 18th 19, 02:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Mayayana
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| Is it not possible to report it to whoever he bought the domain from? If
I buy a domain name, I get it from a registrar. If I did naughty things on
that site, surely the registrar could delete my account?
|

The registrar just keeps the records so that someone else
can't use the same domain. Buying a domain name is
really renting that process of being in the system,
so that you can use AceAndAcme.com and no one else
can. If you buy the domain name from someone that's
a separate, private transaction.

The second part of that would be the actual policing.
You'd need evidence and some kind of authority willing
to spend the time and money. Many times a domain
owner is hard to trace. If you're attacked by a Russian-
owned website, do you really think you can call the
Russian police to clean it up? They've historically protected
their malicious hackers. I suspect those hackers pay
kickbacks to the gov't. In other words, you're not in
Kansas anymore.

That might work on social sites like Reddit. You can
complain that someone called you fat, or ugly, or that
they didn't properly use your chosen, non-gender-binary
pronoun, and they might get banned. But it doesn't work
that way on the Internet.

Even aside from all that, you don't know for sure
that the page is carrying out an attack. It might just
be an ad. Google is certainly not going to be disturbed
if someone sets up websites like saers.com or
tagret.com and shows ads. Google's getting their money.
Ads are not illegal. If you typed in tagret.com and saw
an ad, that's not a crime. That's what we call being an
entreprenuer. It's the most admired profession in America.
And America is God's country. What are you, a commie
atheist socialist?


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Old March 18th 19, 08:06 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:54:57 -0000, Mayayana wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| Is it not possible to report it to whoever he bought the domain from? If
I buy a domain name, I get it from a registrar. If I did naughty things on
that site, surely the registrar could delete my account?
|

The registrar just keeps the records so that someone else
can't use the same domain. Buying a domain name is
really renting that process of being in the system,
so that you can use AceAndAcme.com and no one else
can. If you buy the domain name from someone that's
a separate, private transaction.

The second part of that would be the actual policing.
You'd need evidence and some kind of authority willing
to spend the time and money. Many times a domain
owner is hard to trace. If you're attacked by a Russian-
owned website, do you really think you can call the
Russian police to clean it up? They've historically protected
their malicious hackers. I suspect those hackers pay
kickbacks to the gov't. In other words, you're not in
Kansas anymore.

That might work on social sites like Reddit. You can
complain that someone called you fat, or ugly, or that
they didn't properly use your chosen, non-gender-binary
pronoun,


ROTFPMSL!

and they might get banned. But it doesn't work
that way on the Internet.

Even aside from all that, you don't know for sure
that the page is carrying out an attack. It might just
be an ad. Google is certainly not going to be disturbed
if someone sets up websites like saers.com or
tagret.com and shows ads. Google's getting their money.


If I ran Google, I'd not like the bad publicity of having my ads turning up where they shouldn't.

Ads are not illegal. If you typed in tagret.com and saw
an ad, that's not a crime. That's what we call being an
entreprenuer. It's the most admired profession in America.
And America is God's country. What are you, a commie
atheist socialist?


Atheist, yes. Not the other two!
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Old March 18th 19, 04:26 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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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 :-)


--
Cheers, Carlos.
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Old March 18th 19, 01:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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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 :-)
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Old March 18th 19, 02:08 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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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

--
Cheers, Carlos.
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Old March 18th 19, 02:22 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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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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Old March 19th 19, 09:36 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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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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Old March 19th 19, 04:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:36:47 -0000, Chris wrote:

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 :-)

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


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


I'm doing jury duty (which could be for the whole day), and has no car park. Everything should have a car park and not expect you to find somewhere else!
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Old March 18th 19, 02:31 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 03:26:19 -0000, Carlos E.R.
wrote:


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.


History of computing comes to mind...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_speaker

If the sound system is down (driver is not working),
OSes are allowed to use "PCBeep". PCBeep is considered
to be the "backup notification system". If the sound
card goes missing, software is allowed to abuse that.

That is the BIOS "beep" that is used during POST.

The 8254 generates a square wave. Programmers can program the 8254.
The frequency can be changed, by changing the preload constant on the
8254. A sound you don't hear too often from your
PC, is the BIOS "European donkey siren" noise which
is made when the CPU overheats. That sound is made by
reprogramming the 8254 every half a second or so.

The BIOS beeper/speaker has also been tied in the
past, to games. The motherboard speaker can be
used as a 1-bit DAC, and game soundtracks can be
played through it. (A certain era of Macintosh gaming
did this too, and there were probably 200 games
that did the 1-bit DAC thing... The fidelity is
surprisingly good. 1-bit DACs have also been
used in expensive stereo equipment, in case
you thought that nobody would dare try that :-)
To make that work, just crank up the clock rate,
and the 1 bit DAC does a damn good job. The DAC
needs to be followed by a reconstruction filter,
which is what makes it work.)

Sound cards came along later, and were largely optional
at first. Too expensive for the average computer buyer
to be tucking into the machine.

Some sound chips, I believe they have a mono "PCBEEP"
input on the side, for tying the motherboard signal
into the sound chip. This allows using the computer
stereo speakers, to make the PCBeep noise.

In this simply horrible little picture, "PCBeep" logic
input on the sound chip, is next to the STEREO ADC
block. You can see the sigma symbol, which means PCBeep
is wired-OR with the regular sound channel. The PCBeep
is basically "summed" with the BeeGees Greatest Hits
you're listening to :-) Note that most sound implementations
do not bother using that pin any more, because the motherboard
has the PC Speaker or a piezo coin-shaped device onboard
to make the sound instead. The computer is filled
with "legacy support crap" which continues to exist,
wastes a pin, but nobody dare get rid of it.

https://www.mouser.com/images/micros...00_blkdia1.png

In the past, we used to tie the entry of ctrl-G
into a terminal (the "BELL" character), to the PC beep,
If you wrote code, and put a control-G in your printf,
the computer would obediently beep. If you did I/O to
/dev/audio, then a sound would come out of the sound
subsystem speaker (a different speaker or speakers).

That's also the reason, that if you cat'ted a binary
file by accident to the terminal, the terminal would
beep seemingly randomly, because some of the binary values
were the control-G BELL character. So in addition
to crap and "squares" on the terminal textual output,
some of the symbols processed would cause a PCBeep event.

Paul
 




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