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URL's advertised at DNF which have REAL viruses when clicked-on!

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David G

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Need opinions please. Made an offer for $300 to purchase a 3 char dot-org from a Platimum Member who had the name listed in his sales thread.

Immidiately after I sent PM confirming the deal I visited the url for the first time (don't know why I did not do it before, for some odd reason thought it was a sedo park page so never bothered, very stupid of me of course). My Norton went on right away saying I just got a nasty (high risk kind) virus sent to me from the url. Not only was it a nasty virus but worse yet as it even locked up my PC forcing a hard reboot using the on/off switch, even a soft reboot failed.

Thinking it was an error went back to the url and same thing happened 3 more times. Next went to another 3 char org he was selling in that thread and same thing, same nasty virus, same freezing of my computer. Later visited the same 2 urls a few times in error when accidently click on them, same thing over and over again. If not for Norton my PC would be toast.

It appears after sending the very real virus a screen is designed to come up selling antivirus and anti spyware software with a link to an order form. Of course we have all seen that before with false warnngs you may have a virus or spyware installed but never with REAL VIRUSES being sent as in this case.

When I asked the seller about this his answers were not too satisfying, and he did freely admit he knew about the real viruses beforehand and even admitting it was part of that affiliate program he was selling promoting the virus removal program!

Also troubled by his lack of regret over his poor judgment in selecting such an affiliate program. He basically simply said was he can not remove it now as his FTP is not working. He also will not say how long it has been online so I can determine how much damage it did to the public and possibly other dnf members too who may not be running Norton or perhaps Norton was misconfigured.

Told him several times how I was really distrurbed over this and also am now hesitant buying the name for fear that the virus program has been online for some time and infected perhaps thousands of users who went to the url.

The name was advertsied as a traffic name getting 260/visits a week so can you imagine how many this effected over a possible long time span? Some of them may be sending hate mail or possibly complaining to the ISP, not good when you want to use a name as a developed website, which I was going to do.

Now he is saying he spent the money I offered him based on my transaction and seems to be saying in not so many words that I am renegging on a purchase deal. Any opinions on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 

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Holy s**t! Send your pm's to the admin's here and lets have this person banned if your allegations pan out. I'm sure they do as you would have not posted then. This person is a serious threat to our membership and the whole internet. Maybe he should be turned into the feds?
 

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ClassicNames.com said:
Real Names. Holy s**t! Send your pm's to the admin's here and lets have this person banned if your allegations pan out. I'm sure they do as you would have not posted then. This person is a serious threat to our membership and the whole internet. Maybe he should be turned into the feds?

The url's are LUC.org and GAF.org but I got PM from him a few min ago saying he just removed the virus program from the 2 url's.

Did not test it myself as I am afraid to visit again in case my Norton does not work right.
 

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In my view the member should have made known to you that the domains were involved in illegal activity and liable to cause the buyer to risk claims for damage etc.
You should have no fear about cancelling the sale if what you say is true, what is more you should identify both the seller and the domains to forewarn any other members.
Please post or PM me any link you have to the sale here on DNForum.
 

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http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=65444

Took a chance and went to them a few min ago and he did in fact remove the old page and virus program as he said he was doing this morning.

P.S. Found an old thread where it seems he got the name luc.org from member Mudi. You may recall he is the one selling the traffic name confessed.org which gets its traffic from resetting the home page without asking for permission. Is there a pattern here?

Mr Webname said:
....what is more you should identify both the seller and the domains to forewarn any other members. Please post or PM me any link you have to the sale here on DNForum.

I am running XP not Win95 so why say below it only effects win95?

PM by poulos. just tried that sponser recently, i was told it affected windows 95 i run xp on 2 machines and Norton anti virus found it and blocked it, last night my main Pc with my cute ftp progrm was not working and i could not remove the index page, regards, bill a.
 

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Original sales thread removed for the protection of other members.
PM sent to member, Admin informed.
 

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Can you imagine all the non-exclusives seeing the title of this thread (which I assume is visible to all, right?) and thinking how they wish they were Exclusive so they can read the details!

What a cool way to in effect get more exclusive members. LOL.
 

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man...
that is worrying!

P.S.
worrying I mean the names, not the exlusive membership.

Lets get them all here!

P.P.S.

Maybe a 'Supermembership' for $1000 should be considered for even more 'exclusive' memberships?
'uranium' membership?
:)
 

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I agree - he left out pertinent information in his sales thread. I would not feel any obligation to complete the sale under those circumstances. That url is most likely poisoned indefinitely by this stupidity.
 
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Being affected by a "virus" via your IE browser may suggest you haven't been updating your XP security patches regularly.

Also, Norton Antivirus in itself is not enough. You need Norton Internet Security which includes the anti-virus program.
 

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and I had bought JIR.ORG a while back from what appears to be the same person?

I know have it at Sedo, and I hope it wasnt one of those nasty sites before!
 
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