Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s

Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by robertelder on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:05AM (#16052635)

I visited this page two times and it caused my browser to download a file called 'n5hm6dsspmjfor3d5akscs.gz' and then another called 'rblsat02tsnsr899bpjig2.gz'.

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Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by toyg on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:30PM (#16053450)

Same. I want to be charitable and believe some content-compressing mechanism was misconfigured. Who would ever distribute a virus as ".gz"?

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Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by dang on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:47PM (#16053613)

Since this comment was posted we've changed the URL. Context at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052728.

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Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by tonylemesmer on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:13AM (#16052713)

Same - When I visited the site I got a load of application download requests - seems like it has been compromised unless its some corrupted image lazy loader?

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Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by waltwalther on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:16PM (#16053313)

Same. The site attempted to download multiple files to my machine. Beware of this site. I did not examine the files, only deleted them.

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Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by xexers on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:06PM (#16053237)

Same here

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Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s by aceofspad4s on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:28PM (#16053425)

I did not get anything like that. Are you sure your ad blocker is up to date?

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