Beware humans bearing gifts.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391.400-beware-humans-bearing-gifts.html

by eastlinkage • 17 years ago

9 10 17 years ago

newscientist.com

3pt14159• 17 years ago

SPAM

dunstad• 17 years ago

There's definitely something wrong with this link.

selven2• 17 years ago

I got redirected to a site that "scanned" my C drive, found 431 viruses and trojans including some MS Word vulnerabilities and offered (once every 5 seconds or so) to download a .exe file that would supposedly fix everything. I was running Linux.

Beware humans bearing gifts indeed.

Deestan• 17 years ago

I got to the proper New Scientist article. Maybe it was just an exploitive ad that they've gotten rid of now.

wynand2• 17 years ago

The link must have been fixed in the meantime - I didn't have any trouble.

wynand2• 17 years ago

Perhaps a DNS attack? Try 194.203.155.123/article/mg20427391.400-beware-humans-bearing-gifts.html

Sisyphus_of_IT• 17 years ago

yep - tried to trick me into installing 'anti-malware'. Please remove the link!

gjm11• 17 years ago

This is not the first New Scientist article in recent days to attract a lot of comments of the form "I went there and got sent to a site that sells fraudulent antimalware".

New Scientist itself is certainly not in that business. newscientist.com is certainly New Scientist's website. So either they, or some DNS server(s) somewhere, have been compromised. (Where I count accepting an advertisement whose effect is to redirect visitors to a fraud site as being compromised.)

Beware humans bearing gifts.

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