Site to block advisory

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Sun Nov 16 20:04:16 UTC 2008


Ray Parrish wrote:
> 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
> 

  Runs fine here --







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