[ubuntu-uk] OT: Poundland

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Mon Mar 2 22:37:52 GMT 2009


2009/3/2 David King <linuxman at avoura.com>:
> So I really must check out this Poundland offer. I tried looking for the
> Poundland website, but Google told me that poundland.com contained
> malicious code and would not let me directly visit it. Wikipedia listed
> the site as being at poundland.co.uk, which when I tried to access it, I
> got a warning saying it was a Reported Attack Site. But I visited the
> site anyway, with the NoScript actively blocking the scripts. I am
> guessing that someone has probably hacked the site and put code on there
> recently.
>

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-GB&site=http://poundland.co.uk/

"Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over
the past 90 days."

Looks okay now if you ignore the warning and visit the site anyway.

Cheers,
Al.



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