July 29, 2002

WARNING - Watch your URLs

Just a sidebar, from Allenze Lance - I was collecing links for the previous entry, looking for the homepage of the rock band, Queen. So I first went to "www dot queen dot com" (except writen out how you would write it out in your browser). BIG MISTAKE Not only did I get redirected to a page with various links to p o r n sites, it popped open about 20 similar windows on my computer...my computer AT WORK!!! And they weren't the regular windows, either. They were the ones with "click here to close" message in really small type hidden amongst the other graphic elements on the page....ugh!

Posted by jfer at July 29, 2002 9:47 AM
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You mean there is p o r n on the interent? I am aghast!

Posted by: Stepan on July 29, 2002 2:54 PM

Yeah - so was I.

Posted by: Jfer on July 29, 2002 3:12 PM

I have actually seen these windows that don't close...I have had to log of the internet and log back on to get them off. I think it was when I was looking for pictures of honey....the tasty condiment made by bees.

Posted by: MOH on July 29, 2002 7:35 PM

Jen, I hope you reported this incident to your boss immediately. Had you been employed by SBC you would be suspended pending termination. I have done searches at home and found that I was bombarded by these awful sites.

Posted by: MOB on July 29, 2002 11:32 PM

Jen, I hope you reported this incident to your boss immediately. Had you been employed by SBC you would be suspended pending termination. I have done searches at home and found that I was bombarded by these awful sites.

Posted by: MOB on July 29, 2002 11:32 PM

Rita, what joy it must be to work for a large beaurocratic corporation! It is way too easy to accidentally step on a wrong site - especially when doing a search or when mistyping a common URL.
BTW, have you ever tried searching for fonts on the Internet? These sites seem to have even more popups!

Posted by: Stepan on July 30, 2002 11:37 AM

Yeah, you have to be careful. When I was still working at the paper, I was researching some aspect of the federal govt, so I typed in whitehouse (with www and com before and after)--another $%#^$ porn site--scary.

Posted by: Patrick on August 5, 2002 10:08 AM
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