found a site that tried to put smitfraud on my pc

[Tommy McClure]

where do I report this?
site: dyxxxxxx.xxxx.com

received popup with classic smitfraud message.
I deleted my temp internet files and am scanning

 

[Gaz]

Provide that information to me via email. I will take care of it.

Is anything really done about these sites? The numbers of people taken in by
these frauds must be frightening, the credit card companies are facilitating
this organised crime. We have seen how, when a government wants to, it can
enforce law on the internet just as strongly as it can in the real world.

Many of these fake spyware companies present themselves as legitimate
companies, they are parasitic fraudsters extorting money out of users forced
to buy their products.

Gaz

 

[Clark...]

where do I report this?
site: dyxxxxxx.xxxx.com

received popup with classic smitfraud message.
I deleted my temp internet files and am scanning

report the site as forgery/phishing site with either Firefox, under help,
report forgery, or with IE under tools, phishing filter, report this
website,
those stats are reported and thus added to some magical database somewhere
and eventually the page should show up as a bad site.

Clark...

 

[Victek]

Is anything really done about these sites? The numbers of people taken in

by these frauds must be frightening, the credit card companies are
facilitating this organised crime. We have seen how, when a government
wants to, it can enforce law on the internet just as strongly as it can in
the real world.

Many of these fake spyware companies present themselves as legitimate
companies, they are parasitic fraudsters extorting money out of users
forced to buy their products.

Gaz

Which government are you referring to when you talk about enforcing the law
on the internet? A big part of the problem is the internet is a global
entity and governments can only attempt to directly regulate activities
within their borders.

 

[Gaz]

Which government are you referring to when you talk about enforcing the
law on the internet? A big part of the problem is the internet is a
global entity and governments can only attempt to directly regulate
activities within their borders.

No. Sorry, doesnt hold water. The US Government, China, France and others
have shown quite clearly how when they want to they can enforce laws on the
net. The internet is not some legal limbo, where fraudsters can get away
with what they wish.

Follow the money, these companies survive by taking, largely, credit card
payments. Put a legal liability on credit card companies for the criminal
behaviour of their authorised customers, put obligations on isps to maintain
an active blacklist of malicious sites.

It is reaching the point now when the majority of computers are infected by
some kind of spyware. Some of the spyware is sneaky, with dubious EULAs, but
some of it is just plain criminal, with no eula of any sort.

Turn off the money supply, and these companies will disapear.

Gaz

 

[ASCII]

It is reaching the point now when the majority of computers are infected by
some kind of spyware.

That sounds like it came straight from the advertising department
of some snake oil distributorship.

 

[Kerry Brown]

It is reaching the point now when the majority of computers are infected

by some kind of spyware.

Some people consider Windows spyware but other than this do you have
statistics to back this up. My experience certainly doesn't show this to be
true.

 

[Victek]

No. Sorry, doesnt hold water. The US Government, China, France and others

have shown quite clearly how when they want to they can enforce laws on
the net. The internet is not some legal limbo, where fraudsters can get
away with what they wish.

Follow the money, these companies survive by taking, largely, credit card
payments. Put a legal liability on credit card companies for the criminal
behaviour of their authorised customers, put obligations on isps to
maintain an active blacklist of malicious sites.

It is reaching the point now when the majority of computers are infected
by some kind of spyware. Some of the spyware is sneaky, with dubious
EULAs, but some of it is just plain criminal, with no eula of any sort.

Turn off the money supply, and these companies will disapear.

Gaz

I didn't mean to suggest that nothing can be done. I'm just saying that it
becomes a lot more complicated if the source of internet crime is outside
the borders of the attacked country. The internet is not outside the law in
any ultimate sense, but it's like outlaws hiding in the 1800's "wild west",
ie damned hard to find and bring to justice.

 

[Kerry Brown]

| Some people consider Windows spyware but other than this do you have
| statistics to back this up. My experience certainly doesn't show this to
be
| true.

Maybe not specifically spyware but malware of some kind in general.

Hell, take an unpatched Wintel PC and connect it to the Internet w/o a
FireWall and see
how long it stays clean.

I guess it depends on your definition of spyware. I took the post to mean
spyware = malware. My experience is that maybe forty percent of the
computers I see in the course of doing business are infected with malware.
I'm sure the general population is much lower than that. People only call me
in when something is wrong so my sample is skewed. I'm not trying to make
light of the malware problem. It's the most serious issue with computers
today and it's getting worse. I don't however believe the assertion that
more than 50% of the computers in the world are infected with malware.

 

[Tommy McClure]

where do I report this?
site: dyxxxxxx.xxxx.com

received popup with classic smitfraud message.
I deleted my temp internet files and am scanning

I have looked in the MVPS hosts files, no mention.

I have used the Site Advisor with Yahoo Search , using the domain name
above, no mention [ I think this is the way to go, Yahoo includes McAfee
Site Advisor, and calls it SearchScan beta ]

I sent an email to MVPS hosts notifier Mike Burgess, got robotic reply -
useless, no mention of where to add sites.

I have added the domain to my "Restricted Sites" zone.

I'm too nervous about this to do any more test ing, I have fought this virus
in several different places, its not that easy to get rid of. I caught mine
in time. No reappearance. So use Alt F4, might work for you.

 

[kurt wismer]

From: "Gaz" <[email protected]>



| Is anything really done about these sites? The numbers of people taken in by
| these frauds must be frightening, the credit card companies are facilitating
| this organised crime. We have seen how, when a government wants to, it can
| enforce law on the internet just as strongly as it can in the real world.

| Many of these fake spyware companies present themselves as legitimate
| companies, they are parasitic fraudsters extorting money out of users forced
| to buy their products.

| Gaz

I don't know what to tell you. You are correct in your assertions. This kind of fraud is
very difficult to deal with,
I don't personnally do anything, but I can provide the information to malware researchers
who keep track of the sites, deal ith the malware end collect evidence.

are there not people who chase these things down and get the page
binned? i seem to recall something called MIRT...

here we go http://www.castlecops.com/c55-MIRT.html

 

[Dustin Cook]

That sounds like it came straight from the advertising department
of some snake oil distributorship.

Except it's a valid statement these days. Sad but true.

 

[Dustin Cook]

| Some people consider Windows spyware but other than this do you have
| statistics to back this up. My experience certainly doesn't show this
| to be true.

Maybe not specifically spyware but malware of some kind in general.

Hell, take an unpatched Wintel PC and connect it to the Internet w/o a
FireWall and see how long it stays clean.

without atleast sp1, 6 minutes average before it's botted.