What's the deal with this website?

Caution - the website linked below may harbor malware.

I’m looking for information on laying travertine tile. I do a Google search. Among many others http:// plueonianpre. nm. ru/g4.html]this website pops up. I click on the link. It takes me to a page full of almost-english gibberish, with travertine and other tile-related keywords. The other links on the page take you to similar pages. What is the deal? Is it a malware vector? (I’m on a Mac, so I don’t worry about such things). It’s just bizarre.

I’m very suspicious of its motives just for having a .ru (Russia) domain. A lot of enterprise network administrators block .ru because of the overwhelming percentage of sites there that will actively try to infect your PC.

I’ve seen these before and I’ve just assumed they were randomly generated link farms with various keywords so search engines would pick up on them. My popup stopper blocked 2 popups so I assume that’s where they’d be getting their revenue stream for their search engine hit generators.

The URL is http: //plueonianpre. nm. ru/g4.html (if you’re really desperate, you’ll have to get rid of the spaces).

did you really mean to embed it in your OP? That seems kinda naive to me. Or maybe I’m just paranoid :stuck_out_tongue:

It appears to be a test page.

Actually, Macs are being seen as Typhoid Mary computers. A Mac may not become infected with a Windows-based trojan/virus/whatever but easily transmit the infection to others.

How?

That is true of a small handful of now-elderly Word macro viruses (they can infect Mac Word documents but don’t do any damage until they execute under Windows), or was true (didn’t Microsoft strip OfficeMac of all vBasic macros? I’m not an Office person except for Excel so I’m a bit ouf of that particular loop)…

It is, I suppose, true of email attachments in the sense that they can be forwarded along with forwarded email, will do the Mac user no damage, and may execute on the PC.

Aside from that, umm I don’t think so.