On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:36:59 -0400 'Beauregard T. Shagnasty'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

>hummingbird wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:53:16 -0400 'Beauregard T. Shagnasty'
>> wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:
>>> And like Micha, I don't have any anti- anything software on my
>>> computer either.
>>
>> You're out of your depth Shagnasty. Accept it and go fishing.
>
>That's funny...

:-)

>> There are plenty of people who surf unprotected and are at risk of
>> getting clobbered by websites containing malware. A HOSTS file is no
>> absolute guarantee of safety.
>
>Of course not, and I did not say it was.
>
>> [HEALTH WARNING]
>> If you switch off all your security s/w and surf to this website,
>> see what happens: xxx.pricelessware.org


>Ok, I did. I see a ~1995-coding-style web site with many lists of free
>Windows software. What was supposed to happen?

Well, several months ago, if you had no security running that
website was discreetly transferring you to a URL based in HK
and downloading a trojan onto your system and running it to take
you over. A recent poster reported a similar problem only a coupla
days ago on ACF. I believe a malicious a-frame was installed by
hackers. Much debate here about it on ACF at the time.

After I got hit by it, I added the URL into my HOSTS file to
prevent myself ever going there again in error.


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