Ride to Riverstone Festival

Riverstone Lions Club & CAMWEST present the 2nd annual Ride to Riverstone Festival. Enjoy yourself with 30 or 55km rides, challenge yourself with 80 & 105 km options or or bring the kids for a family-friendly 10km ride on bike paths around Rouse Hill. Enjoy some of the great scenery that the Hawkesbury region has to offer, and help raise funds for the Children's Cancer Institute Australia. Entry fee includes on-ride support, an after ride sit-down meal, and raffle & fund-raising prizes. Valet bike parking available after the ride in Riverstone for a gold coin donation.
Enjoy the entertainment and stalls at the Riverstone Festival before heading for home.

Various start times from 7.00am.
Full entry details see http://ride2riverstone.com.au/

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Comment by Super Si on May 16, 2010 at 1:56pm

I just re-visited the Ride to Rivertsone site and the dodgy code seems to be on the page where you view the 100km route - my antivirus went berserk again. There is something on there pulling content or code from "www.karkaram.net".

I Google'd this and found that "www.karkaram.net" pops up a number of times re malware. I've shortened the original Google search link with bitly to make it more user friendly. I hope this information helps for next year's ride, as I can imagine this would have put some people off if it happened to them.

http://bit.ly/bhjF0H

The orignal link was

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=karkaram.net&rls=com.microsoft:en-au&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&rlz=1I7GGLL_en&redir_esc=&ei=61vvS6OLKo2A7QPcrPWlBg

Comment by Andrew on May 3, 2010 at 10:21pm

Thanks Rob, I should have spotted the profile on bikely! Looks a bit more challenging than what I get round here in the inner west, so maybe I'll bring the gears :)

Comment by RobK on May 3, 2010 at 9:38pm

Andrew,
I'm familiar with the course (well, hope I am since I nominated it). The 100km route is basically 2 loops of the 50km circuit. Most of it is undulating, with a few half decent climbs. Here is the bikely elevation image of the route:

Note that to complete the 100km in the allotted 4.5 hours, an average speed greater than 23 kmph will need to be maintained.

Comment by Andrew on May 3, 2010 at 9:17pm

Is anyone familiar with the course? Considering doing the 100km course on the fixed gear.

Google seems to think the site is clean:

* http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=ride2riverstone.com.au

I checked the source and saw some the site was doing some dodgy stuff and downloading something from an script at an external site at but its now returning an error. If you're interested the page was

* http://hingham-ma.gov/Scripts/FadeSlideShow/ajax.php

Its possible that page got hijacked and has now been removed, but I'd probably be checking your machine for malware.

Comment by RobK on May 3, 2010 at 9:16pm

I can't replicate the problem. I'm using McAfee 8.7i Antivirus on an XP machine, and tried with Firefox 3.6.3 and IE8....All working for me.

Comment by Super Si on May 3, 2010 at 7:30pm

Interesting. I too have gone through the virus/dodgy site warnings with this site. I've ignored them and the payment is processed by a thrid party anyway - with no such warnings.

I just visited the site again using IE8, I opened two other tabs to look at other sites, at the same time. When I got back to the Riverstone site tab my Norton had gone berserk with a big red warning. The site behind the warning was no longer the Riverstone Ride site but one with a .ru (Russia) extension ...and the page had locked up, nearly crashing my laptop in the process.

Any ideas?

S

Comment by RobK on April 25, 2010 at 10:00pm

Early-bird registrations close on April 30th. Adult entries cost an additional $10 each from May 1st. (There will be on-the-day registrations as well).

Comment by Al on April 25, 2010 at 8:14pm

I get a similar message from my Trend Micro security product - warns the site is infected with malware, as I'd been to the site before with no issues being flagged I just went in anyway and have had no virus or malware issues at all.

Comment by MadameBike on April 23, 2010 at 12:31pm

Paul, it might be the fact that the web-hosting is by "blinddog". Perhaps that sounds dodgy, errr or naughty........?

Comment by Paul on April 23, 2010 at 11:50am

Websense is an corporate Internet Filtering product that categorises millions of websites into simple categories such as "Social Networking", "Peer to Peer Filesharing" etc etc. Companies then set up the filter to either allow or block various categories, so in our case the powers at be have blocked the "Social Networking" category, which takes out pretty much everything like Facebook, MySpace, MSN.
There are also categories like "Malicious Websites", "Proxy Avoidance" etc, which we block as well.
We don't actually control what sites go into the Categories, although we can recategorise a site if we think it is wrongly defined. The actual company, Websense, has a bunch of people looking at URLs and updating a central URL Database. With large Web Hosting Sites it is possible for two sites to share the same IP Address(es), so if one site is hosting Malicious content, it can take out every other site hosted there as well, since ultimately the URL resolves to a physical address, and this is what is being blocked by the Filter.
Websense is installed at the Network Proxy Server level, not on individual PCs. It is possible to bypass if you know how, but that is naughty in a corporate environment :-)

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