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Astro - Totally off topic, but pretty interesting :-)
Martin Frey wrote:
[...] Nor mine. After half a dozen pop-up alerts I gave it the 3 fingers and it died painlessly. Would something more radical happen if I had let it run and run? Nah, I held down the space bar to rapidly recycle through the pop-ups, entered trash in the occasional dialogue boxes that occurred, and it eventually gave up and did something else (can't remember what). It really was the "irritating web site" taken to extremes; I can think of a few web designers that ought to be pointed there! Thinking about the virus claim, I did wonder if it had a Java routine designed to irritate by making you *think* you have a virus, but I tend to surf with Opera in a fairly secure/stealthy mode, so I'd not have seen it anyway. Best, Stephen -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://www.astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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