Youtube.com ... hijacked?

[jimmy0x52]

Looks like someone hijacked youtube.com and pointed it somewhere else.

Anyone confirm? Or am I just hallucenating?

 

[droplister]

fine for me, it could be software updated your host file to point it elsewhere

 

[tekz999]

works fine for me too.

 

[jimmy0x52]

Where would one locate said hosts file on a Windows XP sp2 PC?

 

[nts]

The host file is \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

 

[jimmy0x52]

Nothing in my hosts file out of the ordinary.

Command-line ns-lookup on www.youtube.com produces three IP's, all three going to the real youtube.

IE and FireFox both go to the "fake" youtube.

I think this safely means it's not my DNS - it's on my machine.

Anyone have any other ideas?

 

[droplister]

just beat your pc with a hammer

 

[nts]

Looks like spyware. Download a copy of Spybot:SD (http://www.safer-networking.org/) and do a spyware scan. Should pick up whatever's hijacked it.

 

[jimmy0x52]

DNS now resolves to 65.23.154.2 which is the offending site.

Hmm. Time to check my DNS server too I be thinkin.

 

[insomnia]

Screenshot?

 

[jdk]

Anyone know of some DNS software for windows that will give realtime DNS updates and is compatible with IE7? I had one but it didn't work that well.

 

[jimmy0x52]

Looks like a hotfix I haven't yet applied to my firewall which prevents DNS poisoning attacks - which looks to be what this is.

Oh glory - patched. We'll see if it clears up in the next 24 hours.

 

[nickb]

any screenshot of this?

recently i've had both my browsers hijacked so if i ever mistype a domain, rather than searching google like firefox used to do it now comes up with a site called searchathand.com or a few other pages that are actually parking pages for verious domains. i have a feeling it may have be a domain owned by someone on here that caused this but as it crashed my browser i had no way of finding out.

 

[jimmy0x52]

http://www.geekosis.com/ss.jpg


Screenshot of the offending site.

Little follow-up...

Flushed the firewall's cache, my dns server's cache, and my cache.

Now I can waste time at youtube again.

 

[MrDude]

YouTube is cool, I found some decent videos literally hours after I got home from a 3 day music festival. Was on there last night

 

[Mr. Deleted]

i like Break.com better, I have their RSS on Slabaugh.org, but I might do youtube too if they have it

 

[OgieOgalthorpe]

Looks fine from here.