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Beware humans bearing gifts.
- 3pt14159 17y agoSPAM
- dunstad 17y agoThere's definitely something wrong with this link.
- selven 17y agoI 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 17y agoI got to the proper New Scientist article. Maybe it was just an exploitive ad that they've gotten rid of now.
- selven 17y agoThe second time I went in I got to the New Scientist article as well. It's probably fixed now.
- marcusbooster 17y agonope, i just got the same "virus scanning" link. maybe it only appears on the first click. regardless, this post should be deleted.
- wynand 17y agoThe link must have been fixed in the meantime - I didn't have any trouble.
- wynand 17y agoPerhaps a DNS attack? Try 194.203.155.123/article/mg20427391.400-beware-humans-bearing-gifts.html
- Sisyphus_of_IT 17y agoyep - tried to trick me into installing 'anti-malware'. Please remove the link!
- gjm11 17y agoThis 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.)