{"id":45535,"date":"2023-06-17T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45535"},"modified":"2023-06-18T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T21:12:59","slug":"internet-youve-visited-illegal-infected-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-youve-visited-illegal-infected-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet: &#8220;You&#8217;ve visited illegal infected website&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Internet use: the tutor mentions a recent encounter.<\/h2>\n<p>\nOften I change from Bing to Google.ca to search the Internet. (My default browser is Edge on the Microsoft computers I use.) Occasionally, the typing gets garbled, so I end up at a site that&#8217;s not quite Google.ca.<!--Edge sometimes suspects I've typed wrong and offers me a link to Google.ca.--><\/p>\n<p>\nThat happened, I guess, this morning, and I was greeted with a pop-up that said &#8220;You&#8217;ve visited illegal infected website.&#8221; If you&#8217;re curious, it looked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/support\/?locale=en-US&amp;articleId=TS102999&amp;page=shell&amp;shell=article-view\">like the example of a fake one shown in this article.<\/a> <!--At the same time, in another pop-up at top left, Microsoft Edge was asking me, \"Do you mean Google.ca?\" I followed the link Edge was supplying to Google.ca.--><\/p>\n<p>\nI was pretty sure the pop-up was bogus somehow; I found it quickly on the web. It came from a multi-line web address.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Internet use: the tutor mentions a recent encounter. Often I change from Bing to Google.ca to search the Internet. (My default browser is Edge on the Microsoft computers I use.) Occasionally, the typing gets garbled, so I end &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/internet-youve-visited-illegal-infected-website\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Internet: &#8220;You&#8217;ve visited illegal infected website&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45535"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45548,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45535\/revisions\/45548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}