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If you happen to click the link at the bottom of the page "HOME PAGE OF applet-magic" like I did, you get one of the fake virus web sites. Just do Ctrl-Alt-Del (on Windows), select Task Manager, sort on Name if you have to, right click on Google Chrome (or whatever your web browser is), and choose End Task. Or just cold start your computer.

But hey lets keep web sites with links like that off Hacker News, what do you say?

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It's a long expired domain that originally belonged to that SJSU professor, I doubt he will ever update the links on these articles. That doesn't negate the value of the article itself.

A hundred dollar bill crawling with Ebola virus is still worth a hundred dollars, yes. But I would really prefer if nobody tried to hand it to me.

Ebola doesn’t live very long outside the host, so I think you could probably have them put the hundred dollar bill aside for a day or so and then come back and grab it.

That page did absolutely nothing with JS off; just shows a blank page. Now I know it's not worth turning JS on for either, like the majority of the stuff I come across.

The title is somewhat intriguing but the content is extremely light, and on top contains this:

  <!-- ZoneLabs Privacy Insertion -->
  <script language='javascript' src='http://127.0.0.1:1026/js.cgi?pcaw&r=14945'></script>

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