Take downs: The good, the bad - and RapidSwitch

Taking down malicious sites has been part of daily life for years now, and I still love every second of it. Primarily because it annoys the bad guys, but mostly because it means there's less malicious sites (for a second anyway) for people to get infected via.During the years, there's been many changes in the responses from hosting companies and registrars. GoDaddy have become one of the best at

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hpHosts: Scheduled downtime

Just a note folks. The hpHosts website and forums will be offline between 20:00 - 21:30 PST for maintenance.That's 06:00 this morning for us in the UK btw ;o)

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eBay: Do you read before bidding/buying?

Sites such as eBay are extremely useful for finding that wonderful collectable, part or a multitude of other things you've been meaning to and wanting to, buy for yourself.Sadly however, as with many other sites, there are those on these sites, that are doing as much as possible, to part you with your money. There are millions of legit users on there, just like yourself, but don't forget -

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Fake scanner that DOESN'T lead to a fake AV?

That certainly appears to be the case with a site I came across today. The following, if loaded in a browser, displays what we're used to seeing when a site wants to infect our machine with a fake AV;www(.)sosgt.com/indexm.phpIn this case however, we're given a purchase page.Clicking to proceed to the checkout, takes us to;hxxps://secureonlinestore.net/secureorder/orders.phpIncase you're

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Franebook.com: An update - part 3

Second verse, same as the first. Same registrar, same registrant, same multi-residential IP setup, same content - same everything.usabbc.info - Vlad Marks / vladmarks@yahoo.ca eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS)utgroup.info - Vlad Marks / vladmarks@yahoo.ca eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS)waterspa.info - Vlad Marks / vladmarks@yahoo.ca eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS)werace.info - Vlad Marks / vladmarks@yahoo.ca eNom, Inc. (R126

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Franebook.com: An update - part 2

Just came across another lovely lot, all created March 7th, all registered using eNom (surprise surprise), all registered to Vlad Marks / vladmarks@yahoo.ca, and all with the same content and MO as the last

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franebook: An update

Normally I get very annoyed with myself when I miss one of Chris Boyds blogs. This time however, I'm partially glad I did, as otherwise, I may have missed what I've just found.Going over some of the stuff he found, I decided to do a bit more digging, and not only has franebook.com come back to life - the bad guys behind it have gotten themselves some new domains, all associated with a single name

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Eset: Here’s my support desk!

I guess someone in the general area of Kolkata reads my blog posts. At any rate, after I posted a blog yesterday bemoaning the fact that I had to do my own systems support, I got a phone call from a gentleman with a pronounced accent wanting to help me with my virus problem.It's Raining Men (And Wooden Horses)You didn't know I had a virus problem? Neither did I, but he assured me that I was

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Info: Telephone scammers still coming to a phone near you!

Myself and others have been reporting on and following, the telephony based scams which for now, are being traced back to "companies" in Kolkata, India, for quite some time now.I'm sorry to say (but definitely not surprised), these scammers are still targeting people around the world, with reports coming in quite frequently to places such as digitaltoast.co.uk (warning, due to the page size, it

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hpHOSTS: Updated March 2011

hpHOSTS - Updated March 2011The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 122,276 listed hostsnames.If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)Latest Updated: 02/03/2011 00:00Last Verified: 01/03/2011 16:00Download hpHosts now!http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

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