I got an email from someone who wants not to be named asking how do I know if these sites that I have talked about like Defenderpageblock.com, Spywaredomainlist.com, adwaredomainlists.com, badwaredomainlists.com, browserdefenderlist.com, malicioussitesblock.com, and browserliveprotection.com are fake warning sites because of how the site handles the URL presented. Let me give you a few example urls to see what I mean:
http://defenderpageblock.com/block.php?id=2006-54&url=http://paulstechtalk.com/scareware-adviser-from-defenderpageblock-com/
http://browserliveprotection.com/block.php?id=2024-4&url=http://paulstechtalk.com/2008/12/microsoft-readys-to-layoff-around-15000-workers.html/
http://malicioussitesblock.com/block.php?id=2006-54&url=http://paulstechtalk.com/2009/08/list-of-malware-sites-for-aug-24-2009.html/
http://spywaredomainlists.com/block.php?id=2018-2&url=http://paulstechtalk.com/2009/08/scareware-adviser-from-spywaredomainlists-com.html/
http://adwaredomainlists.com/block.php?id=2031&url=http://paulstechtalk.com/2009/04/pc-speedscan-pro-a-bad-idea.html/
Now as you can see al these have an identification number probably like an affiliate link and then the url of the site that is supposed to be bad or have malicious in some way. So what do you do when you see these types of warning pop up and you would like to know if this real. Here are some things to try to see if it is real or not:
- change the url it is going to, try Google or some other site that you know isn’t malicious and see what happens. You will notice it will say the same exact same thing.
- Check out Stopbadware.org — Google uses this service for there search results so this would be more reliable and check out the warning domain to see what it says then also check out the domain and website in question.
- Check out Phishtank.com — Firefox likes to use this resource for reporting fraud, fake, or Phishing sites and also for sites that are dangerous to the people who use Firefox.
Most of the time, you will see this happen when you are search for the site like Defenderpageblock.com it will use a key word and pop up because they don’t want you to remove this scareware or sometimes called badware. So if you do a search for the site that keeps popping up and you click on a link the site in question will sometimes try to prevent you from figuring out how to remove it. All these sites mentioned are associated one way or another to Personal Antivirus Scareware Site and should be removed.
So if your getting these types of warnings, I would recommend downloading:
