webyourbusiness

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.... http://www.whois.sc/googkle.com

I second that.

classic indeed - you read what you expect to read - I do it at least 50% of time, probably a lot more; and I'm aware of the problem!!

have you any experience with 98lite or xplite from litepc.com? I'm looking for something like that as a quick install for a number of break machines that will just be used for browsing ... we're going to deploy a number of stripped machines running on PIII in the break room for personal surfing habits as work machines are not supposed to be used for that purpose... cheers Greg

broken link?

or NOD32.. http://www.nod32usa.com/