[ubuntu-uk] OT: Poundland

[LeeGroups]

>> 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.
I've just tried this on a Windows box, and the Avast scanner went nuts 
(sirens and everything) complaining an infected script file had been 
detected... Maybe it's not so safe after all...  Certainly not on this 
box anyway... :|