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Warning,
The tour de france website has some ropey executable which you need to view its content.
I'm sure this is illegal but if you download/install it it resets your Internet Explorer home/search pages to some dodgy ad powered search page.
I'm sick of things like this.!!
Hey tour de france guys RTFM
if i had a nickel for every page ive been to like that id have at least $100 extra ..
lol..
what a load of crap..
standards people.. standards !!!!!!! that's what they are there for..
but hell if you wanna use spyware powered crap.. go ahead.. make my day..
Oh yeah we have standards, not like people will follow them though. If a company can make .00000000000001 cents for having an ad up and such... they're going to. It's all about making a buck. Screw the people who come to our site, or the fact for Internet security, I want that .00000000000001 cents of change in my pocket! What can you do though but take it up the processor and except it. Then sit everytime you get off the Internet and run your spyware and AntiVirus software to get ride of all the "crap" and to feel a little less "dirty".
Just a thought...
~AciD
Lemme guess, you went to http://www.tourdefrance.com ? Which is NOT the official website of the Tour. http://www.letour.fr is however.
Sounds like a social engineering activity by someone.
Sorry and apologies to the real tour de france website.
I was at www.tourdefrance.com
Well done msmittens for pointing that out.
I appreciate its social engineering but its damn near the top of the google list and its very well presented.
Ya.. a little check on it points it to some schmuck in Spain. I wonder if the Tour official guys know about it.
When I did a search on Tour+de+France the first site I got was the official website. What term did you put in to get the "fake" site?
Now your askin. I guess they social engineered me well because It was 4th in the search cats and I clicked on it when I seen the URL.
Now mark_boyle2002 must Iron his hands. bad mark_boyle2002 bad bad mark_boyle2002.
Just my 2 cents/
When I come across a site that asks to install anything at all. I block it from the normal flock of users. I can't catch all the pop ups but I take great joy in blocking those that "require" a software plugin to view their site at all. Exculding those marvelous plugins like Adobe, Flash etc....
I'm the same way. I love the sites that want you to install Gator and stuff too... I just laugh as I click no. That's why it's a good idea not to have your prefs set you automatically install 3rd party plugins and such. That's where a lot of the popups come from I think. The only time I get popups anymore is when I go to free sites like geocities or AOL homepages... LOL
But it's still the thought of these places trying that stuff, makes me sick!
Just a thought...
~AciD
Personally, I use AdSubtract to filter pieces of content for my pages... (and no, I don't work for them, etc) It blocks pop-ups/unders, cookies, javascript and a whole host of other things on a site-by-site basis... if you go grab it, try it for a bit and it'll drop the price on ya... I think I nab'd it for $14.95 instead of the $29.95 list -- certainly a piece of software that I think should be included in your everyday browser.Quote:
Originally posted here by RoadClosed
Just my 2 cents/
When I come across a site that asks to install anything at all. I block it from the normal flock of users. I can't catch all the pop ups but I take great joy in blocking those that "require" a software plugin to view their site at all. Exculding those marvelous plugins like Adobe, Flash etc....
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Originally posted here by mark_boyle2002
Now mark_boyle2002 must Iron his hands. bad mark_boyle2002 bad bad mark_boyle2002.
HA! I snorted coffee out my nose when I read that. :rolleyes: Bad Dobby
That's pretty damn clever of them, you would think the Tour people would have taken that domain name or at least attempted to recoup it like some companies have done in the past for domain name-jacking.
Actually do you guys remember www.htomail.com? Everyone would almost always miss spell hotmail now and then, and be sent to a porn site. Actually my MOTHER of all people was the one who pointed it out to me. These days though I think big companies are trying to buy up the domain names that they think their customers will try to go to when going to that companies site. Which makes me wonder, I wonder if the DNS people are the ones putting up these "weird" sites like www.htomail.com and www.tourdefrance.com to make companies pay for more domain names.
Big cash in that stuff... heheh maybe I'm just paraniod the goverments after me too?
Just a thought...
~AciD
LOL, I have been to htomail.com many times, thanks to my typing dyslexia. I have made an attempt to buy up similar domains, because of various fraud sites. In fact the FDIC actually recommends it in a bulletin dated a few years ago - not going to go search for it, just trust me they did :) It's hard to think of everything and each domain cost money... at least buy the .net and .biz versions of your domains at a minimum. Who would have thought to buy paypalUSA.com or something like that to prevent fraud?
It's not that easy to get a domain changed or force someone to cease operating it. It took Pepsi and Coke years to get their domains back from squatters and those are registered trademark known across the planet. Not every country subscribes too or recognizes trade mark names. The internet authority stopped issuing trade mark domain names but only a few years ago. I am still not sure how reliable that mechanism is.
Ad blockers, I have considered ad blockers on my network but I have not seen a product I have felt comfortable deploying to all users. I am talking about blocking pop ups at the enterprise level and then being able to control them based on URL. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I just try and block the major ad producing sites at the moment.
at least domain name registration is hella cheap. You would think some genius would realize they could be sold for more than $15/year. Try $100 or $200 and people would still buy them (I know I would).
Speaking of geniuses, some genius should try to come up with a way to actually authenticate people/"organizations" buying domain names. How about that?
By the way, my name is really mafyasha Hyronesu from the West Indies and own a firm called "DomainRegistrationisInsecure". Ill take paypla.com and antoinline.com
I think one of the more (in)famous ones was whitehouse dot com (rather than dot-gov, of course). I actually had a luser at one point tell me I needed to call someone because someone had hijacked the site... *sigh* *laugh* (and yes, she was serious... same person that at one point sent me an email to tell me the mail server wasn't working -- then look mystified when I brought her printed email and set it on her desk in front of her, asking what the problem was...)Quote:
Originally posted here by AciDriveHB
Actually do you guys remember www.htomail.com? Everyone would almost always miss spell hotmail now and then, and be sent to a porn site.
And infosecguru2 - domains haven't always been that cheap... some crazy registrars have even seemed to not have noticed that everyone else's price has dropped in to single digits... if you'd like to pay more, I'd be happy to sell you a few at a couple hundred a piece... or send you to someone else that would be happy to charge you more than you're currently paying.
ive read 2 of your posts in the last two days:Quote:
Originally posted here by MsMittens
Lemme guess, you went to http://www.tourdefrance.com ? Which is NOT the official website of the Tour. http://www.letour.fr is however.
Sounds like a social engineering activity by someone.
1. you havent mentioned ettercap, at all
and
2. you HAVE mentioned social engineering in both of them.. please dont tell me you've quit using ettercap and become a speech pathologist :(
hehehehe harry potter. Dobby!Quote:
Originally posted here by mark_boyle2002
Now your askin. I guess they social engineered me well because It was 4th in the search cats and I clicked on it when I seen the URL.
Now mark_boyle2002 must Iron his hands. bad mark_boyle2002 bad bad mark_boyle2002.
Damn those sites that require plugins or try to get you to use them. I play outwar and everytime you go to the main site. Well almost everytime a box pops up asking to download MSCache if you click no an alert pops up saying "you must click YES!" and it pops up again. When you hit no it pops up an alert that says "you must click OPEN!" and a save dialog comes up. Talk about rude.
PeacE
-BoB