I was just looking at nme.com (research purposes) and got thrown on to http://internetscannerlive.com, which said it was scanning site for viruses.
Had a similar thing earlier on.
Is this the "poisoned DNS" thing I was reading about?
― Alba, Saturday, 12 July 2008 11:39 (eighteen years ago)
thought it was more likely to be some nonsense shitness at the NME's end. hang on ...
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 July 2008 11:50 (eighteen years ago)
hmm. nothing unusual here. you at work? blame them :)
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 July 2008 11:51 (eighteen years ago)
at the very least get a mccafee site advisor-type program verifies the actual web address(although it doesn't scan for things per se, forgot the one that does it) lifehacker touched upon this type of thing a while back.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 12 July 2008 11:56 (eighteen years ago)
Thing is, it happened on my Mac at home this morning and now on my PC at work, which has McAfee. Odd.
― Alba, Saturday, 12 July 2008 11:58 (eighteen years ago)
(it was accuweather.com then. on both occasions it's started on the homepage OK and then clicking through to another page caused the "alert, alert" thing)
― Alba, Saturday, 12 July 2008 12:06 (eighteen years ago)
i had weirdness yesterday as well, some odd popunder window that was a single line of text and also had 2e.tmp in the task manager window just before my pc shutdown all on its own. nothing looked untoward when i restarted but these things are sneaky.
― koogs, Saturday, 12 July 2008 13:12 (eighteen years ago)
I just can't remember regular sites like nme.com and accuweather.com ever doing that before. I think it's the end of the world.
― Alba, Saturday, 12 July 2008 13:16 (eighteen years ago)
Do you have any anti-spyware (Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D) programs on your computers? If so, update and run them.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:18 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, it happened to me the other day on an unlikely site and hasn't repeated. also a mac user, and imagine it's not an issue on my/our end.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:21 (eighteen years ago)
Never happened to me.
― stevienixed, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:25 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, it was the first time i'd ever seen such a thing on a mac as far as i can recall
― gabbneb, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:34 (eighteen years ago)
Then again I never visit porn sites. *whistles*
― stevienixed, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:38 (eighteen years ago)
haha. brooklynvegan does have those conspicuous 'porn' links - hmm
― gabbneb, Saturday, 12 July 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)
gabbneb never having looked at porn: depressingly believable.
― kenan, Saturday, 12 July 2008 15:03 (eighteen years ago)
like the notion i've got of your never having seen either of the first two coasts. or apparently not knowing what a blended haircut is. but thanks for your personal comments.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 12 July 2008 15:27 (eighteen years ago)
blended!
― kenan, Saturday, 12 July 2008 15:29 (eighteen years ago)
I am right on the shining edge of being banned forever aren't I?
― kenan, Saturday, 12 July 2008 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
more likely that gabbballs will be banned before you though
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 12 July 2008 15:48 (eighteen years ago)
i don't know what a blended haircut is either
what are the first two coasts?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 12 July 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)
N., you can talk, considering that you made that link that made my computer break down.
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2008/04/will-it-blend-g.html
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 12 July 2008 16:19 (eighteen years ago)
the ones that MATTER
― J0hn D., Saturday, 12 July 2008 16:20 (eighteen years ago)
to whom?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 12 July 2008 16:23 (eighteen years ago)
gabbneb
― J0hn D., Saturday, 12 July 2008 16:24 (eighteen years ago)
OH !!
― the pinefox, Saturday, 12 July 2008 16:28 (eighteen years ago)