Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition

Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by daave on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:40PM (#10814217)

When visiting this blog post on my Android phone, the ads (or something) redirect me to a page with popups telling me my phone has a virus and encouraging me to install an app to 'clean' it, using Google branding on some dodgy domain. I seem to get a different one each time.

Reported it at https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ but mentioning here so that others don't fall victim to it.

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by notnarb on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @04:32PM (#10814512)

Easy to see for yourself that this happens by using user agent spoofing in your browser's dev tools: http://i.imgur.com/vlLV8PW.png

Hard to track what exactly is causing this because of the ~200 requests this website makes before redirecting your browser.

The article itself links archive.org's copy of the article which I would recommend using over the original website since it appears to be free of malicious redirects:

http://web.archive.org/web/20151230152933/http://linuxfonts....

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by daave on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:15AM (#10816303)

The site is now blacklisted for Chrome users. I've emailed the author letting him know about this issue.

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by unethical_ban on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:17PM (#10818510)

http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp#/?search=http%...

The page you want reviewed is http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/

This page is currently categorized as Suspicious

Last Time Rated/Reviewed: > 7 days

This page has a risk level of High

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by touristtam on Friday January 01, 2016 @06:21AM (#10821632)

AV on Windows flagged this site as being malicious.

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Re:Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition by irascible on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:50PM (#10814293)

Yep same here.

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