"Total Solar Eclipse..." links to video from Iraq!

What do you mean? I got a video of the eclipse viewed from a plane (viewed it yesterday, & checked again today).

Maybe your browser's been hijacked.

I viewed it from your link and got just what it said it was a solar eclipse as seen from an aircraft.

John,

That is so creepy! I guess you're right. Something's been hijacked here. I opened the original site again and this time saw the very beginning of the video which opens with three dialog panes: "Islamic Army in Iraq", then "Presents...", then "Lee's Life For Lies".

Jeez, what do I do about this?

Thanks, Mermayde

Well, stay away from the link, for openers - I just looked at the one you posted and got the same video I saw yesterday of an eclipse from an aircraft. I don't know how your view could be corrupted, unless there's an internal re-direct. Have your antivirus software do a complete scan and see if it picks up anything suspicious.

Bad recording, no closeups.

Not worth seeing

Thank you, EnviroMan, for the suggestion, "Have your antivirus software do a complete scan and see if it picks up anything suspicious."

Although my antivirus program (recommended and installed by Best Buy) is set to do complete scans at least weekly, I activated a scan yesterday which, when complete, showed one detected Trojan horse that it claimed was now neutralized.

However, I wanted to contact the software manufacturer directly to discuss what I could do to avoid this happening in the future. When I looked the company, Kaspersky, up on the web for a phone number, I found there was no toll-free line... because they are in Moscow. I laughed out loud since I've heard rumors that some of the worst hacking on the Internet these days is coming out of Russia.

I did send a query via email alerting them to what had happened. Yet, all the while, I was aware of how that story about Russian hackers was disquieting my mind, even as I knew I, myself, hadn't read much more than headlines and so knew actually very little of what "truth" there is in it.

Just now as I opened this thread to close the loop on the topic, I accidentally clicked on the "neatorama" link. And, what ho! it opened on a telescopic view of the solar eclipse beyond an airplane's wing tip.

Apparently, all's right with the world.

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