Someone started a discussion a while back about a website that they had made which has collections of archived copies of repair manuals for old cars. This topic seems to be gone. Does remember any more about it?
It was removed because it was Spam .
Did they put some repair manuals there and then later change the content to spam?
They were promoting their own website.
spamming this web site to get you to go to their web site.
I could create the topic then since I’m not affiliated with their website.
If you posted where the site was it would still be Flagged most likely.
A simple search with Mr. Google will find you places that might have the manaul you want . Not that difficult.
I’m I’m allowed to link to youtube or to Autozone or Mitchell, which has all been done without issue, but linking to a non commercial site is prohibited then that’s really messed up. But I suppose there is a difference between creating a topic about it and just answering a question.
Why do this? You know where it is, use it as you like.
Why do what, and what is “it”?
I’m the one that made that post and I am not a spammer. It was a valid site and I used to have it bookmarked, but no longer. It had three sections, sales brochures, owners manuals and repair manuals.
Over time, the repair manuals got deleted, then the owners manuals leaving only the old sales brochures. I don’t know why that happened but I no longer have it bookmarked.
I expect the copyright owners complained, insisting their repair manuals be removed. Presumably the various companies that supply on-line service data for older cars have purchased the copyright, or at least sole right to provide that information online.
I believe the forum’s esteemed moderator has asked us to refrain from posting copyrighted content, even copyrighted photographs, here, same reason.
You may have had one listed.
But there was a thread recently started by a first time poster and it was promoting his own site.
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You just reposted a site that the Forum moderators removed . Why ?
I don’t see anything wrong with the site. no advertising that I came across.
When I see “free manuals” or “free mp3s”, something like that, I’m expecting the website is not going to be particularly friendly to my computer. Likely to experience browser lock up, etc.
When I used to download pirated software, music, etc, I had a separate computer used ONLY for downloading material of questionable origin, so that any viruses or malware would not make it onto any computer that I cared about. Once downloaded, the file could be tested, and if valid, saved to a CD or USB flash drive, and THEN transferred to my other home computers.
If I was planning to download pirated service manuals, I would use that same tactic. A lot of the websites which claim to offer this type of content are going to secretly install malware onto your computer. Make sure it’s a computer that you aren’t going to use for anything else.
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You’re not going to get malware on your computer from downloading PDF or .doc or MP3 or AVI document or media files, unless the software used to open those files is out of date and has known security vulnerabilities. In that case, it doesn’t help that the computer used to download them was different. Even then, it is very rare. Computers get infected by malware because people download and run Windows executable files like .exe .scr .bat and .cmd. It’s understandable that the average person wouldn’t know this. Antivirus software today is largely ineffective at detecting this.
If you’re talking exploits a browser that a malicious web page is exploiting, then any site can do that. Even embedded advertising or other embedded content can do it. It’s fairly common for discussion forum sites like this one to get infected with malware which attempts to infect the users of the site. The malware will usually detect the regular forum users and leave them be to avoid discovery, but it will target non regular users who find the site from a search engine. It will then redirect them to a site that tries to trick them in to downloading executable (exe scr cmd bat) malware or it will initiate a malicious file download directly from the page on the site.
Incorrect. Those files can be corrupted in ways to install malware.
[2107.12873] PDF-Malware: An Overview on Threats, Detection and Evasion Attacks (arxiv.org)
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