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# booby trapped website in the b3ta newsletter
> Supermassive Raver vs the Riots <
A change of pace from Supermassive Raver, as he
tours the riot-ravaged streets with beatboxer
Killa Kela. Rather lovely.
bit.ly/n5yla8

when i clicked this link from the newsletter I was infected with some scareware trying to force me to buy their program to 'fix' my pc everything was disabled from starting all exe files managed to get round it but this is just a heads up don't click this link
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 18:39, archived)
# Use protection
NOD32 blocked it for me

Edit: apologies for being unhelpful.

Perhaps I should've flagged it up to rob, however I make my living fixing PC problems like this - not really in my economic interest to warn anybody.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 18:43, archived)
# Blanked
Lacked hummus
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 20:25, archived)
# Yep. Thanks for that.
I wasn't aiming for hummus. Ho hum.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 20:46, archived)
# No
I had a sarcastic reply for you that was supposed to be humorous but it was very lame so I blanked it. Sorry for the confusion.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 21:35, archived)
# OK
I'll delete my original post and neither of us will look foolish in the morning.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 21:54, archived)
# out of interest
are you running windows xp, are you running internet explorer 6, and what on earth does "everything was disabled from starting all exe files" mean?
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 18:44, archived)
# It's computer talk, boris.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 18:48, archived)
# well i'll be
those computers get smarter by the year!
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 18:51, archived)
#
running xp and firefox 5 (latest update) on xp coz i on my netbook at the moment
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 19:07, archived)
# if you're still on xp but running firefox i'd recommend running noscript
it runs a whitelist - only scripts from sites you explicitly allow will be allowed to run. blocks a ton of this kind of thing
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 19:50, archived)
# Yeah I got something like that
except it was a free tv site

I think they've been hit by the jsredirect virus
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 19:13, archived)
# try this link
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 20:18, archived)
# Websense blocked this for me at work
Security threat and infected with bollocks. Maybe a false positive but if not mmmmmmmmm.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 21:09, archived)
# pics or it didn't happen
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 22:45, archived)
# "HES PINK HES GREEN HES PROBABLY"
*close-page-type-click* (1)... cba bothering with that shite.

1) Not to be confused with the more common *Woo-type-click* that normally occurs on b3ta.
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 23:53, archived)