Brent Finnegan -- September 3rd, 2009
The hburgnews hashtag has been on fire this morning with tweets from people who know a lot more about computers than I do, warning folks using PCs to steer clear of the DNR website. Apparently it has been breached, and is generating fake antivirus scan popups with a redirect trojan. @Ironmask took a screenshot.
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. with Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Matt Lohr, Harrisonburg Mayor [...]
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide. NCGA helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately [...]
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month. Out of the 45 new applicants that the program received, 21 communities received awards. Harrisonburg was given a bronze‐level Bicycle Friendly Community designation. [...]
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Happened to me last night! I was not happy! Hope they get it figured out.
In fairness, hburgnews had something similar happen in April 2008.
Yeah, but you’re one guy running a blog…
And today they’re not allowing any comments to be posted on any articles.
…The DNR has been giving us the Trojan, in the news paper, for quite sometime now.
They’ve still got it. I just got the fake site when I clicked on the DNR, and am running antivirus now. Argh.
The DNR website currently features no stories. Nothing being cranked out on RSS.
Obviously they’re having lots of technical difficulties, but in light of all the recent talk in the newspaper business of paywalls and “it’s the Internet’s fault our industry is in bad shape,” it would be interesting to see how local news flows without a newspaper website. Would be interested to know (maybe a DNR could report on this) if paper sales increase at all while the website is down.
The DNR has not as a matter of policy published bad news about itself. The trend goes back at least as far as the sexual attacks on news carriers 20 years ago. I doubt they’ll report on this but, not getting the dead-tree edition, I may never know.