On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:53:39 +0000, ~BD~ wrote:

> Aardvark wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:13:45 +0000, ~BD~ wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone here stumbled across this group? Web site ......
>>>
>>> http://wxw.nohack.net/
>>
>> Live link, not obfuscated. I've told you before- if you want to
>> obfuscate a link, substituting the letter 'x' for each 't' in 'http'
>> doesn't cut the mustard.
>
> I thank you for restating that. I seem to think we didn't actually
> finish that discussion. However, it was the venerable David H Lipman,
> resident guru here on alt.privacy.spyware, who advocated that it *does*
> obfuscate a link!
>

Perhaps in the mail client he uses as a newsreader, yes.

> Perhaps it simply depends on which newsreader is in play, eh?
>

I should think that if you only **** with the 'http' portion of a link,
the bit beginning 'www' will still be live. Try posting a link twice-
say, to Google's home page- without the 'http colon slash slash'. In the
first, keep the 'www' intact, in the second change the middle 'w' to an
'x' and then check the results in your newsreader. Try a test group
without any crossposting, eh.

> If you look here, does the link 'work'? What happens?
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...browse_thread/
thread/304948b4e3d096df?hl=en#

In your OP, the link is clickable, as I would expect. In my reply, it's
still clickable- no surprise there. Then in your next post you have
successfully obfuscated the link, as it brings up a 'Server not found'
message in Firefox.

Did you not realise that you don't have to place 'http://' before a link
beginning 'www' for it to be live?

>
> (It sort of 'works' for me - I get a warning from Google!)
>
> However, in SeaMonkey, the link is *NOT* live. Piccie .......
> http://i52.tinypic.com/raoqw6.jpg

SM appears to have an idiosyncratic way of dealing with links, it seems.

>
> Aardvark, using Linux as you do, did you click on the 'live' link to
> take you to the site?

<http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8167/screenshotqbp.png>

Is what I see on clicking the link.

I typed the link directly into my browser's address bar and went straight
there. It was quite amusing. Try it with your Mac if you're too
frightened to do it with your Windoze machine.

It seems to me that Google has wrongly categorised the site, and I know
why now.

> Have you any means of knowing whether or not
> malware of any kind is or is not downloaded onto a visitor's computer?
>

I suppose if I could be bothered, I could study the page source. If I
could be bothered.

> D.

A.



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