Firstly, apologies if you see this more than once - I'm only posting it to each forum I'm a member of ONCE, but I will be posting it to fairly large number of forums...
A web site preying on those that mis-type web addresses has targeted Google.com with a site that attempts to infest your PC with multiple browser hijackers...
Just be careful how you type google.com and hit return... more information from f-Secure on the problem here...
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/googkle.shtml
Do NOT visit the Googkle.com site unless you are supremely confident in your Anti-virus/Anti-Trojan setup!!
Here's why ..... this is one nasty site - it has at least 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 a more qualified security expert can provide a more in-depth analysis, and although I'm no 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....
andy206uk posted this at 12:43—27th April 2005.
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Does this thing just effect Internet Explorer or does it target all browsers? I'm guessing firefox users are probably safe for now...
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bja888 posted this at 18:36—27th April 2005.
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I like what yahoo did. Bought most of the domains that would be a typeo and redirected it to their site.
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Greg K posted this at 18:49—27th April 2005.
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I once saw a report about 3years ago at how much a large company pays just to protect their web presence, registering all the extra domains and such, imagine it is a lot more now.
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MatW posted this at 02:46—28th April 2005.
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Man that sucks. Oh well thanks for the warning man, much appreciated
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farmer_Tom posted this at 04:03—2nd May 2005.
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Yea, I would have never guessed that. Be careful with other spinoffs of the Google name, they are often linked to dangerous/illegal/fake/scam/generally ugly sites. Google didn't buy all the misspellings before they became billionaires and now everyone is domain squatting...
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wwwben posted this at 00:22—9th May 2005.
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Sweet your right that is quite a site.. i got nailed from a gogofrog site today! i gained 400 infected files from ad/spyware it only took seconds and i automaticly created rules in my firewall and changed some system files in windows! yikes looks like im using Linux next time.
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JeevesBond posted this at 12:13—9th May 2005.
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What browser were you using ben?
wwwben posted this at 13:25—9th May 2005.
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Stupid Internet Explorer.