Every site on this list I am positive is bad, except for a few that I mention are suspicious, so you won’t need to do very much research at all.
Typo sites that show ads:
“When people mistype web addresses and end up to these sites, the sites show Google AdSense advertisments, profiting the fraudsters - and indirectly profiting Google.”
Quote from
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000743This is because the ads come from oingo.com which google owns.
f-sekure.com
f-secue.com
mcafeeantiviru.com
nortpnantivirus.com
www-f-secure.com
I am starting to understand what you mean about making sure to report the right “types” of sites.
I spent an hour finding lots of sites that linked to search portals that linked to rogue sites.
An example would be 4523.wxmzl.com/. That just shows how many sites wxmzl.com has registered. A google search shows that they have 49 thousand sites registered and probably have set up bots to create their sites, which link to search portals that link to other bad sites.
I have realized that it is pointless to block the search portals also, there are probably thousands of them registered, at least hundreds. The only real thing that would be good to block is the actual sites themselves that host the ActiveX or other types of downloads.
I now understand how the people who write the malware get the money to run their infections.
Affiliate links.
Each time someone clicks on an affiliate link it gives money to the person running the link.
So, what the people did, was set up bots to create tons of sites to link to other sites thus earning them lots of money from infected people who go through their site and another search portal to get to a bad site. This funds the malware writers, who in turn probably fund the search portal sites and subdomain linking sites in order to ensure that people keep finding THEIR sites.
It’s really too bad they cant all be blocked on the blocklist-if only it supported wildcards it wouldn’t really be too hard, but since it doesn’t’ unless we have bots adding stuff to the list we cant have enough time to add all those search portal subdomains and link subdomains….there are too many of them.
Also, I don’t think I should report cracks/other illegal sites because it will take too long to download things and see if they infect me, its better just not to go to those kinds of sites, and if you do, you can expect to get infected.
Besides I don’t have a virtual machine, so I would just get infected.
Therefore, I will only report sites that actually install stuff through ActiveX or other means, or sites I suspect are phising scams or that serve up ads/adservers. Also shock sites I will report. However I wont waste any more time reporting bogus search portals or subdomains, there are waaayyy to many to report.
As I am writing this, I am realizing how futile my efforts are…there are 196 thouasnd domains registered under gorematic.org that run ISTBar installs through ActiveX.
That’s 196000 sites, from one single domain.
I think a better solution is to just have the search engines remove all bad sites from servers, that way people cant get infected if they don’t directly input the URLs (yahoo is already working on this and I hope google will start soon). An easy way to do this would be for google, yahoo, etc create bots that crawl their own search engines and delete any webpages that contained random words for keywords (since those types of sites are ones that bots create, then bots could be fighting bots, rathter than humans fighting bots).
Sites that run ISTBar downloads (through ActiveX) by using misspelled words for searches such as “Nirton Antivirus” (all of them place a link in IE’s Back button to the IP address of 66.29.7.159, so when you click back it tries to install a script from ysbweb.com I believe..). Also each site tries to put two possible spyware/tracking cookies on your computer.
norton-antivirus-2004.nix.netmahalk.org/
remove-norton-antivirus.dome.glupperproject.com/
norton-antivirus-freeware.ment.magicdoodic.com/
norton-antivirus-2002.broad.krinka.net/
norton-antivirus-2005.dopax.kitydona.org/
norton-antivirus-coupon.mac.colosna.net/
norton-antivirus-homepage.some.sjsusy.com/
install-norton-antivirus.ment.magicdoodic.com/
antivirus-norton-2005.ioust.gorematic.org/
Other site that has keywords of crack downloads:
Sites that need a little researching:
http://www.memoryoptimizer.comIt seems to me as if it is a rogue McAfee pusher (I know that site is not the real McAfee download site but I think its using it as a front to install spyware, I just need you to investigate more since I don’t have a virtual machine and cant see what it installs without getting infected).
opportunists.loveshopping.us/search.php?keywords=norton+utility%0D
This also seem pretty bogus to me, it looks like a phishing site.
sg.hu/listazas.php3?id=1082118210
This looks like it has quite a lot of junk in its source code, some popups, maybe malicious scripts, needs a little researching.
In conclusion, I have realized how time-consuming it is to report sites with humans when bots are creating millions more daily. 1 website has registered 196 thousand domains, each of which install YourSiteBar, an ISTBar download, from each one of those sites. They cant all be blocked by us. We can only do so much. Now, the really bad sites are worth blocking, but these types of sites cannot be blocked, it would take years to block 196000 sites and those are just a few of the many out there (if each bad site has 196000 domains, there are over billions of bad sites).
What I am suggesting that the IANA and search engines and the common masses of people who use the internet do is this:
1) when people register a web site to the IANA, when they first create it, there needs to be a system where they have to type in numbers shown on a screen (this will defeat web bots, who cant see visual images since they aren’t human and don’t have eyes). This is already implemented in a number of registration systems. If a strong bot-defeating system is implemented, millions of generated sites will stop appearing and the chance of infection will be a lot less.
2) People need to register real names and addresses and the like to IANA, if they are serious about creating a website. IANA should be a lot bigger with more manpower and make sure that the addresses/names are actually real, or have some system invented/created to do that for them. IANA could keep the names in an extremely secure database with advanced technology to ensure that nobody could hack into it, or at least nobody hopefully would try.
3) Search engines need to delete bad sites from their servers. Yahoo and others are already doing this, but Google especially needs to. This is because most people use google, and its even a verb in the dictionary to “google something”.
4) People need to be smarter about what they click on and use better security. How to get this out to the masses? TV advertisements, since lots of people watch TV. If people don’t care, they will after they get infected, and people will become more savvy over generations of computer-savvy youths, and realize how dangerous the internet is.
I think if these 5 steps are implemented, the internet could be a whole lot safer for everyone.
Tell me what you think of this idea.