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SpongeGuard
November 11th, 2010, 09:45 PM
Went to youtube, hit shift+enter and firefox, being the weird browser that it is, added a .net to the .com address (because of the shift+enter)

The end result was a redirect to iwsearch.net (particularly -http://www.iwsearch.net/find.html-). Wondering if there is anything malicious here? Firefox is running adblock plus + noscript, and my browser is sandboxed (running win7 64bit)

I've got no idea where to ask this, since wilders doesn't seem to have a "general security discussion" forum. Since it seems to be malware related, I just decided I'd post here where the malware experts are.

Suffer from paxil-enhanced OCD, so bear with me!

I'd appreciate tips on where to post this, if this is an incorrect section, and I'd appreciate it even more if a mod would move it (again, providing this is an incorrect section)

cheater87
November 11th, 2010, 10:17 PM
WOT reported it as a dangerous site when I looked it up. http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/iwsearch.net

SpongeGuard
November 11th, 2010, 10:20 PM
-{ Quote: "WOT reported it as a dangerous site when I looked it up. http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/iwsearch.net" }-

Aye, but according to virustotal's url scanner and urlvoid's scanner (1/16) it is not going to infect just by visiting. mywot is the only website that flags it, so idk

Kees1958
November 12th, 2010, 09:33 AM
-{ Quote: "Aye, but according to virustotal's url scanner and urlvoid's scanner (1/16) it is not going to infect just by visiting. mywot is the only website that flags it, so idk" }-

Mcfee also says it is ok as Norton

m00nbl00d
November 12th, 2010, 11:12 AM
AVG LinkScanner reports it free of exploits as well.

-Edit-

By the way, URLVoid not always provides up-to-date reports. I've verified for quite a few times that both Browser Defender and Norton SafeWeb (they have same ratings) would report it clean in URLVoid, while checking on both would report as being malicious websites.