Winston (not blaming you at all
) but I don't know where you got the link above because when I clicked on it my Opera browser went nuts....
Whoa thar!
Maybe THAT was the tremor you felt earlier, your computer sensing imminent doom and shuddering from malevolent forces. Sorry 'bout that and hope *I* wasn't the cause and that it didn't affect anyone's computer adversely.
That Eastern IL University link came up when I simply Googled today's quake news to see if one registered in the state. (Nope, not as of then.) Nothing untoward happened on either of my computers when I linked to the site again just now, or earlier, but then I have the most paranoid up-to-date security junk on both (Microsoft Defender with Annoying Constipating Security Essentials, AVG with 8 different "shields" - one of which throws a fit if a site is dubious, all manners of Anti-Virus, Uncle-Malware, etc) and I also use Firefox (plus a funny little lizardy SAFER browser called
K-Meleon). So gee, don't know why your machine weirded out.
But now that you mention it, I'm also wondering, (NOT THAT THIS ISN'T A SWELL AND POPULAR SITE, MIND YOU!
), if perhaps the alleged 301 VV "visitors" on March 8 didn't include a few nefarious spybots of some sort. I don't know if, as Administrator here, your machine is somehow more enticing to them (one reason I'd never be brave or clever enough to host a forum). On my first post today though, the one about free cell phones, I was asked to type in the skewed letters as a security precaution to make sure I was a human poster and not a TracFone ad. (Presumably I'm human, as the post went through...
)
Thanks DV, for the warning and yet
another trustworthy Anti-Malware source (so many sneaky FAKE ones out there, you know). Cnet.com is good though. Can never be TOO safe.
And to get even MORE off-topic, if anyone's interested, K-Meleon ("an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox... free, open source software for Microsoft Windows (Win 32) OS" info here (and if this makes anyone's machine sick, I really will quit posting!
):
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/