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There's definitely something wrong with this link.

I got redirected to a site that "scanned" my C drive, found 431 viruses and trojans including some MS Word vulnerabilities and offered (once every 5 seconds or so) to download a .exe file that would supposedly fix everything. I was running Linux.

Beware humans bearing gifts indeed.

I got to the proper New Scientist article. Maybe it was just an exploitive ad that they've gotten rid of now.

The second time I went in I got to the New Scientist article as well. It's probably fixed now.

nope, i just got the same "virus scanning" link. maybe it only appears on the first click. regardless, this post should be deleted.

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