why you should be careful with web address spelling

I think this is an old vid that most have probably already seen. shows why its important to type addresses correctly or use favorites when you can. Have to say the windows this is on is probably unpatched and not running either SP1 or 2 and obviously isn't running any popup blocker either
http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/53070/

in saying that I ain't gonna try it

 

ill try it at school, lol

 

let me know how it goes JK

 

i will, NOT jk
lol

 

Direct link to youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_...Cwlw/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIpOTfJJazaleh2JstjEpZt
(full screen)


I have tried this on a patched system. Wasn't like this at all.

I wonder how the malware forums can tackle this one.

 

It would probably break the longest thread record in the malware forum
I'm sure I accidently typed in goggle a long time ago and just got directed to a page that said I thing you mean google with a link to the google home page

 

I love the music.

 

I should try that someday

 

Tried it..

Nothing special, just a few commercial pages.
Didn't click on anything after that

 

First up thats an advert for mcafee so i'd say its been exagerated a bit.

Secondly its just a smitfraud infection, we see that stuff all the time in malware.

Thirdly the guy was running on a completly unprotected system, look at the system tray when it shows the red circle with white x in it, (standard symptom of smitfraud) wheres the icons for the Anti-Malware software? Av/Firewall/AS etc? I'd bet that sp2 wasn't even installed.

He then ran spysheriff, which is known rogue antispyware application (installed during the smitfraud infection) which basically adds some fake stuff and says they are malware infection in an attempt to get the user to buy the product.

Follow our steps in the How to Protect yourself from malware! thread and you should be fine!

The orignal point is definatly valid though, you SHOULD be careful when typing urls!

 

My post was merely stated as a joke.

 

Actually I got pretty close to that. Well the pc fortunatelly didn't freak out but I just typed a wrong URL. Instead of yahoo.com
I typed yahho.com. You can click it, there is nothing bad.

P.S. To our beloved officers chaslang and matt.chug: when someone is asking for help in a thread we all have to provide correct info. Is it bad to imagine a poor guy having all that styf into PC, when we are in this thread, even if it is impossible to happen?

 

Well I just clicked it and there is absolutelly nothing behind. There was a company's site there a couple of months ago though.