Portable Car Heater!

4 people have clicked on that link. We need to have a talk about internet safety.

Hover your mouse over the link. Look at the bottom left part of your browser. That URL is where the link will take you.

In this case, it’s “gadgets-reviews.com

Hm.

That sounds a lot like gadgetreview.com, which is a popular (30k view per day) consumer gadget review blog.

Let’s do a little more sniffing. A whois search returns a Russian registrar and an anonymized Russian registrant.

So, what have we learned? This is a fake website in Russia that sounds a lot like a real website, linked off of a car forum based on a US radio show by a guy who doesn’t speak English very well and who joined the site mere moments before he posted this - i.e., didn’t even take the time to look around or see how things work here.

Now, I’ll grant you that it’s remotely possible that this is all innocent, but the overwhelming likelihood from a security standpoint is that this is a site that’s looking to do something nefarious to whoever stumbles into it. Don’t click.

And @cdaquila might want to disable that link before it gets someone in trouble.

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