Word to the wise!

Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
This is a link to a story over at digg. DO NOT CLICK on the title of this story. No virus or anything, but it does some crazy shit. It launches a load of your apps right after one another including Mail, a load of random porn images, and this guy saying HEEYYYYY over and over with loads of echo. I was tempted and so I clicked, don't fall for it. I managed to pull the ethernet very quickly, and rebooted. Used Onyx to verify and repair permissions just in case. Everthing's fine now, but I would rather it hadn't happened, put in that way. And yes, this happened after I installed the latest security update (today's one).

/of course you can click my link above, it just bring you to the digg article in question.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 14
    tednditedndi Posts: 1,921member
    Apparently it just does some javascript stuff in the browser.



    Diggers say no biggie. I still wouldn't click on it.
  • Reply 2 of 14
    irelandireland Posts: 17,799member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TednDi


    Apparently it just does some javascript stuff in the browser.



    Diggers say no biggie. I still wouldn't click on it.



    Apparently so, I needed a wee jolt of Irish Wiskey to get me back on track though (not really but it did give me a bit of a start). The pure loudness of the audio was unexpected.
  • Reply 3 of 14
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,486moderator
    Browsers should come with built-in ways to warn you when this is about to happen. I mean, when Safari knows it is being asked to open so many windows and run all the javascript things, why isn't there a built-in option that blocks it? I don't think that anyone ever expects to click a single link and have it open loads of popups.
  • Reply 4 of 14
    irelandireland Posts: 17,799member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marvin


    Browsers should come with built-in ways to warn you when this is about to happen. I mean, when Safari knows it is being asked to open so many windows and run all the javascript things, why isn't there a built-in option that blocks it? I don't think that anyone ever expects to click a single link and have it open loads of popups.



    I'm sure we'll get more of that eventually. Sure aren't Google and Apple working on something like that for Safari 3.0? Not exactly like that, but Google will tag malicious sites and warn you when you are trying to open one, which is very handy.
  • Reply 5 of 14
    zoczoc Posts: 77member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ireland


    I'm sure we'll get more of that eventually. Sure aren't Google and Apple working on something like that for Safari 3.0? Not exactly like that, but Google will tag malicious sites and warn you when you are trying to open one, which is very handy.



    I do not like the idea that someone should decide which sites are good for me and which are not...



    I hope this feature can be disabled.
  • Reply 6 of 14
    irelandireland Posts: 17,799member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zoc


    I do not like the idea that someone should decide which sites are good for me and which are not...



    I hope this feature can be disabled.



    "This site has been reported as a phishing site! Do you still want to proceed? Yes/No?



    So you want to disable that message, do you?



    (you could in preferences, but why?)
  • Reply 7 of 14
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zoc


    I do not like the idea that someone should decide which sites are good for me and which are not...



    I hope this feature can be disabled.



    You always have the choice of a different browser, if being warned that that your personal information could be used illegitimately isn't a concern for you.
  • Reply 8 of 14
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    omg guyz mac virus, lol

















  • Reply 9 of 14
    I clicked on it. Nothing serious. You only need to be warned if you are epileptic. At any rate, it was mildly entertaining. For about two seconds.
  • Reply 10 of 14
    thanks for the heads up to a site i never go to



    this crap used to happen all the time in the bad old days of useing windoze.



    aaahh... life so much better now



    i havent seen a popup in years
  • Reply 11 of 14
    omegaomega Posts: 427member
    Did I miss something?



    Nothing happened here on 10.3.9.
  • Reply 12 of 14
    sthiedesthiede Posts: 307member
    ahh i clicked on it while using my windows box and it went crazy, didnt get any noise though....i was only surprised cuz i didnt expect anything to happen
  • Reply 13 of 14
    mydomydo Posts: 1,888member
    That really effed up my Firefox. After I crashed it FF would die when loading my google start page. I have to clear the cookies to get it to stop.
  • Reply 14 of 14
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mydo


    That really effed up my Firefox. After I crashed it FF would die when loading my google start page. I have to clear the cookies to get it to stop.



    Hmm.. Didn't screw up my firefox. It went bezerk but I just force quited and then restarted.
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