Landing on the following site the visitor is presented with a (bogus) message:These Malware writers sure have a vivid imagination when it comes to messages to fool the public … As you can see you are redirected to “xp-police-09” for the download … which my AV (NOD32) blocked … Also on the same IP block … we find yet […]
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Recently I was advised of a new site (ms-mvp.org) that is redirecting to pcbutts1 .com … which I have mentioned before, due to the fact that it was a rip-off of my HOSTS file … as well as many other files that Butts falsely lays claim to … Let’s take a “Google” look … shall […]
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Sometimes while researching you end in in some surprising places … Clicking the above Google search link … look what we find! (Image edited) MyWebSearch (MyFunCards) using the Microsoft format for an Information Bar prompt … can’t you people come up with anything better that copying someone else’s idea? … Anyway look at the type of […]
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While researching several codec type sites I happened to notice several links to YouTube for these sites Although the video itself is safe to view … notice the highlighted link to “view the full video” … These are teaser videos to get you to click the link … and you guessed it = infected … […]
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Landing on the following site not only prompts you with a fake “video decoder” … look at the fake Antivirus scanner that tries to trick the visitor into thinking they are infected … well you will be if you click either of these … As usual this download is not very well detected … VirusTotal […]
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The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [February-11-2009]http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (144 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File – Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the “text” version makes a great resource for determining possible culprits … (597 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt Sign up for HOSTS file update noticeshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/updates.htm
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