Good morning!
Well, I just made a very foolish mistake. :
I had been searching links all night long via Google for about 4 hours and was only going to grab a couple more links. I was NOT watching my links very closely any longer, and all of a sudden, my Avast5 (Home Edition) ALERT sounded off after clicking a link on the search page, sending it to a new tab.
I had typed this phrase in the search box: map area of west kootenays in Canada and Idaho
The link in question was found on Google’s search page URL (page 20):
http://www.google.com/search?q=map+area+of+west+kootenays+in+Canada+and+Idaho&hl=en&ei=us9nTIT6EIugngfV5bDBBQ&start=190&sa=N
From the above search page, I clicked on the link below:
Canada Guide
In the west, it is bounded by the British Columbia province, in the east by … state of Alaska and in the south by U.S states of Idaho, Montana and Washington. … These are Glacier national Park, Kootenay National Park, Gulf Islands … in the first major change to Canada’s map since the incorporation of the …
canadaguide [DOT] biz/ - Cached - Similar :o
As you can see, my “foolish” mistake was NOT noticing it was NOT a COMPLETE URL, and THERE WASN’T ANY “http” or “www” listed! (I inserted the “DOT”)
Of course, had I actually taken a closer look at the link, I wouldn’t have clicked on it and simply would have bypassed it…BUT then I wouldn’t have been able to give my Avast a workout and return here to post my findings, right? ;D
Avast5 sounded off longer than usual for some reason. It said it had blocked a trojan in the HTML Iframe.
With that sort of a URL, I soon discovered that “UNMASK PARASITES” website couldn’t check/verify this link because it was not a real link.
Ok, I shall leave this in your hands, and I thank you for allowing me to post this!
P.S. I’m using Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8)Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8