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Old 05-05-2012, 01:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Interesting site.

On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:12:01 +0100, Peter James
wrote:

Bob Hobden wrote:

www.cliftonchilliclub.co.uk/


A worrying site this one. I looked at it, and as it finished loading it
immediatley downloaded onto my dekstop 5 files titled snippet-1.cgi
through to snippet-5.cgi. Without asking I might add for permission to
do so.

Not a good idea in the virus worrying age we live in. I deleted each
and every one of them without looking at them. I would advise anyone
else to do the same.


They are error messages due to a badly coded website that hasn't
implemented frames correctly.

The result will depend on which browser you use.
Some e.g. IE will ignore the errors and just render it the best they can,
which is fine assuming that the errors are harmless.

Others e.g. Opera will pop up a warning error message so you can evaluate
a possible threat.

But a browser shouldn't download or save any such message without an
option to ignore.