Name Game
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North Myrtle Beach, SC
4 edits | SpywareInfo.com, bad news......
SpywareInfo.com, bad news......
GoDaddy just auctioned off Mike Healan's original SpywareInfo.com, and what happened to it is what we feared would when we saw how high the price was getting.  As of yesterday the new owner had a page up directing people to fake protection programs, some of them being downright malicious. If you see any links in any forums that still point to the original SpywareInfo links, you might want to ask Admins to change them to the new link of spywareinfoforum.com. I sure don't want anyone to go to the old domain and get infected by this garbage.
Example here at DSLR of a SpywareInfo link.
»Spywareinfo's online scan?
Also see this posting for the correct url to the forum since it was changed.
»www.geekstogo.com/2008/10/29/wha···areinfo/
Good link to existing forum after name change.
»spywareinfoforum.com/
See also this link for more info
»www.spywareinfoforum.com/index.p···ry668266
List of Sites who link to spywareinfo.com.
Domain profile page for spywareinfo.com. This page has aggregated link data from Message Board Posts, and Forum Threads, which have linked TO and FROM spywareinfo.com both internally and externally. This page reports by time period the link matrix for the following:
»boardreader.com/domain/spywareinfo.com
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bcruze
join:2006-03-03
USA | Site blocked. searchportal.information.com is not allowed on this network.
This site was categorized as:
Adware, Parked Domains
Questions? Not properly categorized?
from using OPENDNS servers |
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ahulett
Life Without Walls
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And to think, I handed this domain to Mike for the $3 processing fee NetSol charged for the transfer. I'm sorry this went like this - while a part of me is very glad the site was very successful, a part of me wishes I'd of never sold the domain knowing where it wound up now.
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Smokey Bear
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Annie's Pub | reply to Name Game
Published. |
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MarkAW
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said by bcruze  : Site blocked. searchportal.information.com is not allowed on this network. This site was categorized as: Adware, Parked Domains Questions? Not properly categorized? from using OPENDNS servers Heh!same here.
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hayc59
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said by ahulett :And to think, I handed this domain to Mike for the $3 processing fee NetSol charged for the transfer. I'm sorry this went like this - while a part of me is very glad the site was very successful, a part of me wishes I'd of never sold the domain knowing where it wound up now. -A you never ever know what happens in the future
not yours to blame Aaron |
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Doctor Four
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I still had the original domain bookmarked, yet following it all I got was a small pink dash (as in the bone eDexter uses when it finds a site in the hosts file).
While the original name is not in my hosts file, searchportal.information.com is, with a note beside the entry reading "[Panda.Spyware:Cookie/Searchportal]".
Time to take out the trash, so to speak.
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DaHen
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Brockton, MA | reply to Name Game
Thanks for the info.
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI | reply to Name Game
Why was it auctioned off?
Searchportal has been in my hosts file for a quite awhile so I just get Proxo 404 error. |
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PrntRhd
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| said by Mele20 :Why was it auctioned off? Searchportal has been in my hosts file for a quite awhile so I just get Proxo 404 error. Mike flat out disappeared.
The moderators and teachers in their spyware removal forums wanted to continue but GoDaddy refused and only wanted to deal with Mike. |
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI | So, he pulled a Wayne Langlois? Are they together perhaps?  |
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Name Game
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said by ahulett :And to think, I handed this domain to Mike for the $3 processing fee NetSol charged for the transfer. I'm sorry this went like this - while a part of me is very glad the site was very successful, a part of me wishes I'd of never sold the domain knowing where it wound up now. -A Yup..sad..but we still have you around and your success story is one to be proud of..Happy Holidays Aaron.
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cnm
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| The site is now at »www.spywareinfoforum.info
We will be keeping it intact, as much as possible. A snapshot of September 2006.
There is a link to it at the top of the forum
»www.spywareinfoforum.com
I have fixed most of the broken internal links that were zapped when I changed the URL - but please let me know if you encounter any. |
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Graycode
join:2006-04-17
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said by bcruze : Site blocked. searchportal.information.com is not allowed on this network. For me the spywareinfo.com requests were processed by static.parkingpanel.com
Guess I'll just block them too. |
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Name Game
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said by cnm :The site is now at » www.spywareinfoforum.infoWe will be keeping it intact, as much as possible. A snapshot of September 2006. There is a link to it at the top of the forum » www.spywareinfoforum.comI have fixed most of the broken internal links that were zapped when I changed the URL - but please let me know if you encounter any. Good work..best to you and the crew over there cnm.
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cnm
join:2002-10-17
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1 edit | Thanks, Name Game.
By the way, if you have any links to spywareinfo.com on your sites:
In general all links can be fixed by just replacing spywareinfo.com with spywareinfoforum.info
So that a link to "www.spywareinfo.com/whatever" becomes a link to "www.spywareinfoforum.info/whatever".
However the forum has a different domain, »www.spywareinfoforum.com. For links to the forum, which are probably more numerous, links should be fixed by replacing forums.spywareinfo with www.spywareinfoforum
So that a link to "forums.spywareinfo.com/..." becomes a link to "www.spywareinfoforum.com/...". |
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winchester73
join:2003-08-08
Chapel Hill, NC | Thanks cnm for all that you are doing ... |
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Name Game
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join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
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Yes..good point..that is exactly what I did at our portal page for your site the other day..link to the forum for SWI
»gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/in···act=home |
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VikingBob
join:2004-06-05
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The download link for HijackThis needs fixing on this page: »www.spywareinfoforum.info/downloads.php
www.merjin.org gets you a "NOTICE: This domain name expired on 11/23/2008 and is pending renewal or deletion." |
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Name Game
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join:2002-07-07
North Myrtle Beach, SC
| And wilder's org no longer has that list or downloads either..
»www.wilders.org/
That whole page needs rework at SWI..always something to fix. |
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