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Yes, I'm pretty worried about browsing a website with no ads using Chrome on my Linux machine with uBlock origin and Flash disabled. I think I take greater ris

• ghshephard 11y ago
  A random website? Absolutely, 99.999% of the Web is safe. But we're talking about a site which is specifically compromised with malware. With that said - "Linux" is safe by being such a tiny population of the community that browser malware generally isn't written for it. In general, I take it as a given that people have deleted/disabled flash and java plugins a long, long time ago.
  • jlarocco 11y ago
    > A random website? Absolutely, 99.999% of the Web is safe. But we're talking about a site which is specifically compromised with malware. Well, we don't know that, actually. The info given on the PE site say that the attacker gained access to the server and modified the database. Do you have proof that it's serving up malware to visitors? In any case, it's an odd situation and an odd response from Project Euler. It doesn't seem like a complicated enough site to get hacked in a mysterious undetermined way.