Site to block advisory

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Sun Nov 16 19:51:05 UTC 2008


Hello,

I've got a new entry for your hosts file. The following site freezes up 
your browser and will not let you close it, or the tab the page is on. 
I'm sure that if I had been in Windows when visiting this site that I 
would now be infected. Fortunately I was in Ubuntu, and a quick 
CTRL-ALT-Backspace got rid of the problem. Here's the culprit!

127.0.0.1 www.GrowTaller4idiots.com

By the way, this site was being advertised in a Google Ad on a search 
results page when searching the W3C.org web site with Google. Don't the 
Google people check their advertisers to see if they are malware sites? 
I've complained to them via their search feedback link as they provide 
no other contact method to complain of these kinds of happenings.

Now it won't bother me anymore. 8-)

Later, Ray Parrish

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