Hi, Just read a worrying report regarding spywear and trojan being added if you mistype the google adress? More info here http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/googkle.shtml Does Eset protect against this yet? I am not going to even attemt to visit the mistyped google site Cheers Jlo
that's one nasty site - it has 4 trojan/hijackers that I found in a very cursory scan of the HTML - all of which appeared to be blocked by my hosts file, let alone NOD32. Nothing managed to get through my hosts file to the NOD32 I run - although without a very extensive hosts file, I'm sure they would have... I'm sure Happy Bytes will provide a more in-depth analysis, and although I'm no security expert, I can see that this site has the potential to be nailing many, many, MANY googlers with finger trouble! The site itself is hosted on an EV1.net (Houston, TX) IP address and is registered to someone out of St. Petersburg in Russia... if anyone knows someone at EV1.net, it might be worth sending them a quick email... who knows.. it might (should) get pulled for a while....
good to hear Happy! while the threats at this site are being looked into, how about a quick update that adds this url to the "Website access blocking" list? this could have been done as soon as this threat was reported and then the individual threats that lurk there could be addressed...just my thoughts, and maybe its already been done or there is more to it than that...
You know, Internet Explorer is the brave men's browser! A true surfer doesn't fear adware, spyware and viruses, but rushes into the fray unprotected!! My Firefox didn't even let the popups open, so nothing happened, I saw a "clean" webpage. IE6 (with XP SP2) kept on "clicking" (making the popup blocked sound) for minutes, then passed a file to FlashGet for download. IMON terminated another hazard. It's clicking even now, I'll post back if it does anything. Bottom line: if I didn't know that this site is malicious, I wouldn't have been harmed anyway. After IMON kills a file off a site I won't download anything :S Go Eset! And I think lee1276 is right this would be a great time to unveil Website Blocking's powers
Thanks so much for sharing this info. I read it in this thread here and I straight away informed people to warn them. I am not brave enough either to click on the site itself although I was tempted to . I use Firefox as my browser and I use the built in search bar (which includes yahoo and google) which is very very handy. Saves my fingers from wandering about and misspelling. This is an easy mistake to do with google being so popular a search engine. It is sad that some folks choose to prey on people like this. Surely they can't get away with this for long.
Using opera and admuncher nothing happened. Admuncher says it blocked a webbug and blocked activity when leaving the page
went with firefox and nothing happened. webyourbusiness,where did you get your hostfile? I use the one from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and it doesnt have googkle in it.
Damn, I missed out on the fun. I tried going to googkle.com with MSIE on an unpatched WinXP Pro SP-2 system, no AV, no AT, no firewall, and the site seems to be down.
I just let it go on one of my test boxes. It sounds like a ticker tape gone awry. I wonder how infected it will be in about 8 hours.
Well Blackspear! How cool is that? Wish you lived in my neck of the woods and could teach me how to do that. Love this forum.....but I will err on the side of caution and keep well away from the danger zone. Elray
Pretty cool, I love my defences LOL, ahhh but I do, you and I are part of Wilders, a great place to learn To learn what I use and for what purpose just take a look here, you will see what I consider “Tight Security”, and if you want to go down that track take one piece of software at a time, ask about it, install it, know how to maintain it, and then move on to the next piece of software. In order for me to use a piece of software it must be simple to use and maintain, or it gets the flick quick smart That is a good thing, until at least you are very confident in your security, and that security is layered, and part of that security includes imaging and confidence in the backup of your data. Cheers
Thanks for the link - makes good reading. Won't keep intruding on this thread - suffice it to say that I probably fall into the middle ground of your security suggestions. I'll study up on the rest! Elray.
