Hosts News

MsMVPs server down

As some of you may have noticed, this blog was not accessable for the last several days ... let's just say they had some issues that needed attention ... hopefully everything has been addressed and sorry for any inconvience ...

Beware of bogus Flash Error

Landing on the following site the visitor is presented with a totally bogus "Flash ActiveX Object Error" ...

Folks there is no such error ... don't fall for these scams ... otherwise you'll end up with what Kaspersky describes as
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.bgn ... although not very well detected as yet - VirusTotal results here ...

As usual clicking any of the above buttons downloads "MediaTubeCodec_ver1.376.0.exe" from s-soft08freeware(dot)com

Another bogus scanner site

Landing on the following site ... a bogus scan is shown and then guess what? ... you're infected (so they say!) ...
The only way you get infected is if you fall for this scam ...

As you can see from the "Information Bar" they try to automatically download a ".cab" file ... then if you do click either button ... that's right! either button ... in the above message another download is attempted. However my AV (NOD32 v3) blocks the download and kills the connection ...

MVPS HOSTS File Update June-05-2008

The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [June-05-2008]
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Download: hosts.zip (157 kb)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip

How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm

HOSTS File - Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm

Note: the "text" version makes a great resource for determining possible culprits ... (681 kb)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Sign up for HOSTS file update notices
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/updates.htm