LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 16th, 2022, 11:50 am
Someone on the "other" site has posted that a link to SSO on the old TCM boards leads to a "really vulgar, pornographic gif". I checked myself to see if I could find what they meant, but all of the links I clicked just led here. I asked the person (named "Newbie") to post where this supposed dirty link is.
Right now the whole thing seems kind of shady, but glitches have been known to occur, so I'll reserve judgment until someone clarifies.
I have some insight on this problem. One strong possibility is the user is infected by malware, which is causing redirects to obscene websites when they click links or search.
Another possibility takes advantage of a typical way that older people use to browse the internet. A user wants to visit a page, so they search for it using Bing, Google etc. Some of the results are actually bad websites which can display pornography or trick users into downloading malware.
I just tried searching for Silver Screen Oasis from Bing and I got a problem link which mimicked a Microsoft page with multiple security warnings me that I had a virus and urged me to call a phone number (fake toll free). I know better, so I closed out.
I can't replicate my work now, so I don't know how far down the list of search results it was or what the site was.
This is the prompt I got:
My own parents used to browse in this way for their financial websites before I warned them from doing that. I set up shortcuts and showed them how to use them to login. My elderly father got snared one day browsing the web with an iPad and was on the phone with them when they asked for his credit card. I was nearby and managed to yell at him to hang up. Then I made him cancel the credit card he was in the middle of giving out.