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Post by Catriona on Jul 30, 2003 12:26:02 GMT
If you're wanting to visit John "Jon" Higgins' website, make sure you have the correct address. The correct address is www.higginsmotorsport.com - I found a link to a www. higgins-motorsport .com (spaces added to prevent the link being clickable) last night while browsing around, which pretended to be the same site, however it took me to a page which contains a virus  Fortunately Norton Anti-virus picked up on it, but I figured it'd be a good idea to post a warning in case anyone else comes across that link (you'd probably have to look pretty hard, tbh - I only came across it while trawling the web for links to add to the links page on the main SCR site), and gets caught out. I hate virus spreaders... especially as I recall seeing that URL mentioned before now, and have a suspicion that I know who owns it  |
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Post by davefiddes on Jul 31, 2003 19:16:12 GMT
Just done a quick scan of the WHOIS information for higgins-motorsport.com. It seems to be owned by: removethis.adallabarba@hotmail.com eSearchBox.com PO Box 771 Sion, 1950 CH 555-1234567 and hosted by www.sitelutions.com (a web hosting provider). I've had a quick read of the AUP and they are very down on spam, hackers and viruses. GR, can you send the details of the virus to abuse@sitelutions.com. I'm about to email them but as I don't run Microsoft Windows I don't have an anti-virus program to tell me what it is.. From the source it looks like an ActiveX trojan that could take over your computer and use it for spamming i.e. very bad news Can I also recommend that to avoid suffering from such nasty surprises in the future you consider not using Microsoft Internet Explorer. Seriously. There are much better alternatives that are not only secure (i.e. can't possibly get IE viruses) but are also faster, easier to use and offer more features. In particular I can recommend both Opera (http://www.opera.com) and Mozilla (http://www.mozilla). I use Mozilla which does Popup Ad blocking and junk mail filtering straight out of the box! It is also Free Software - it doesn't just cost nothing but the source code for the program is freely available for any programmer to modify. There are several Scottish programmers involved in contributing to Mozilla (including myself many years ago) which is something that we could never do in a pay-Microsoft-only world. |
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Post by Racemania on Aug 1, 2003 17:32:22 GMT
And I thought the technical infringement that got Higgins & Marshall excluded from Croft was their fancy dashboard!
They tell me John Marshall has sold his Legends car and bought a Rally car, guess he thinks his last race meeting at Knockhill was good experience all that gravel and off road work!
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Post by Catriona on Aug 1, 2003 20:07:00 GMT
Lol, I noticed his car up for sale in Autosport - the rallying thing sound a good idea, though  Dave - had a look at the NAV logs and it seems it wasn't actually a virus, even though it treated it like one, so I'm confused here  JS.Exception.Exploit apparently - securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/js.exception.exploit.html Have to say if it wasn't a virus, I wish the stupid thing hadn't gone and thrown up a big red window telling me there was one!  Oh well, whatever it is, it seems like something to avoid, anyway |
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Post by davefiddes on Aug 2, 2003 11:17:03 GMT
Thank for the info GR. Had a further look at it and it appears that the company that owns the domain runs a "search engine". I think that the code embedded in the site does as the Symantec info says and tries to forcibly change your start page to be their website by exploiting a flaw in older versions of IE. That's definitely bad.
I've emailed the abuse department fo the people who host the domain. It may or may not be taken seriously...
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