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Same. I want to be charitable and believe some content-compressing mechanism was misconfigured. Who would ever distribute a virus as ".gz"?

Since this comment was posted we've changed the URL. Context at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052728.

Same - When I visited the site I got a load of application download requests - seems like it has been compromised unless its some corrupted image lazy loader?

Same. The site attempted to download multiple files to my machine. Beware of this site. I did not examine the files, only deleted them.

Same here

I did not get anything like that. Are you sure your ad blocker is up to date?