So my brower got hijacked by passthison.com. I've never been to this site before. I'm assuming that this is probably from something I downloaded on Kazaa. This was pretty annoying. I finally fixed it...I think. Anyways, I'm very legitigious and am considering filing a small claims suit in a local court. As part of it, I have looked up all the corporate information for Passthison.com. Its registered to a company named Network Solutions Inc., according to www.whois.com. Here is the company's information according to lexis-nexis. I think I'm going to call tomorrow. NETWORK SOLUTIONS INC PO BOX 11 SPRINGDALE, AR 72765-0011 UNITED STATES TEL: 479-750-3323 ABI-NO: 997209986 COUNTY: 05143 WASHINGTON POPULATION: 25,000 - 49,999 BB CARRIER-CODE: B001 PRI-SIC: 737904 COMPUTERS-NETWORKING LOC-SALES: 1,000 - 499,999 AA LOC-EMPLOYEES: 2 PAR-EMPLOYEES: UNKNOWN BUSINESS-ORG: FIRM EXECUTIVES: DEAN LOWMAN, OWNER ADDRESS: 512 S PLEASANT ST SPRINGDALE, AR 72764 AD-SIZE: REGULAR LISTING CREDIT: UNKNOWN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: June 23, 2003
Ok, so I searched around further for passthison.com. I found a 2001 news article about it which says that the sites creator is Sanford Wallace. Humm..so which direction to go in now?
so now, using whois.net I found a different registration for passthison.com Registrant: SmartBot.NET, Inc. - NO SPAM ALLOWED (PASSTHISON-DOM) 3 Cobblestone Court Richboro, PA 18954 US Domain Name: PASSTHISON.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Admin, Anti-Spam (SW10300) personal@SMARTBOTPRO.NET SmartBot.Net, Inc. - ZERO TOLERANCE SPAM POLICY! 3 COBBLESTONE CT RICHBORO, PA 18954-1374 US 215-953-7291 fax: 215-942-4338 Record expires on 23-Mar-2006. Record created on 13-Sep-2002. Database last updated on 28-Sep-2003 21:29:34 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.SMARTBOTPRO.NET 205.236.189.50 NS2.SMARTBOTPRO.NET 198.31.211.34
Hi davewvu86, Read: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=13692;start=msg87178#msg87178 In the meantime this CLSID is being blocked by default in SpywareBlaster. Regards, Pieter
Not only what's the charge (or grounds), but whose responsible, Kazza too? Then you'd have to file in their jurisdiciton, which can get pricey, To top it all off, you have to "prove actual injury or economic loss" to recover a dime in a civil suit. Annoyance, frustration or inconvenience aren't enough. So don't waste your time and energy unless you can document economic loss (i.e., loss of income) because of it. Good Luck, Rick