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What the heck is with the url here? looks weird and malicious https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/HP-Probook-BIOS-Upgrade-1-17

• jackpot433 2y ago
  Sadly their forums are like that
  • JohnMakin 2y ago
    holy cow.
    • mjcl 2y ago
      A former HP employee told me that a creating named subdomain required a VP-level signoff, while those "license plate" style subdomains could be provisioned by almost anybody via a self-service tool. So if there isn't a real reason for a nice URL, people tend to create license plate subdomains.
  • viraptor 2y ago
    It's not just forums. So many things, both internal and external at HP are like that for some weird reason (for a very long time now)
• adamomada 2y ago
  Why would a malicious URL look malicious though, if it was trying to be malicious?
  • JohnMakin 2y ago
    You have never heard of phishing?
    • adamomada 2y ago
      Don’t they usually try at least to have a domain that sorta looks like the original? It’s not like they use phishing.bigbank.abc.xyz - the domain isn’t supposed to look suspicuous
• mardifoufs 2y ago
  For some reason HP has always had those god awful links that look like the average phishing scam link. I think their docs and even the main website used to have a similar URL pattern at some point.