[Now OT]
On Sun, 06 May 2012 07:57:56 +0100, Peter James
wrote:

RG wrote:

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.
My browser is Safari running underMac OS X 10 v10.7.3. Just as a test I
have just run the web site again, and sure enough Safari downloaded the
files I mentioned.

That's not good. In this case the files are innocuous, but a virus writer
could exploit it to download something nasty.

Opera and Firefox and Camino both shwed errors
wtihin the web page iteslf, but didn't download any files.

That's what *should* happen. You can usually rely on Opera to do the right
thing.

I'll take this to the Mac web newsgroup and see what the experts there
make of it.

Peter