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Mr Anon

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Hmm...

Actually I know of some spyware that does this, so far I haven't found a program thats associated with it but there is something that changes home pages to sites that then when ran either directly display a fake warning page that shows porn images and says something like this is whats on your computer get out cleaner blah blah blah. The other one kicks you to another page or a varity of pages that do the same thing, thus you go looking for that url and can't find it.

I've blocked the pages, the leading pages but I can't find the sites that do that to them or any programs. Our filter (a barracuda 410) hasn't discovered these sites yet. So besides the other things I've seen, there is something thats on alright or typo squatting sites that will do something.

I get calls from scared teachers and principals and I check it out ASAP.

For everyone's sake I hope this is what happened and that something good comes out of stopping junk like this from happening.

dentman42
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Columbus, OH

said by Mr Anon :

Actually I know of some spyware that does this, so far I haven't found a program thats associated with it but there is something that changes home pages to sites that then when ran either directly display a fake warning page that shows porn images and says something like this is whats on your computer get out cleaner blah blah blah. The other one kicks you to another page or a varity of pages that do the same thing, thus you go looking for that url and can't find it.
There were some variants of CoolWebSearch that would do this (just as a starting point of course - there are many others). I've had to deal with trying to remove those at work.

www.goggle.com was one of the mistyped sites that was infecting people at the time. Haven't checked to see if it still lives or not.

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