more about yaho

[Hugo]

On monday 15 decembre 2003 I typed 'www.yaho.com' (I meant www.yahoo.com).

If you search www.yaho.com in google, then you can choose to show
www.yaho.com in the cache of google. If you do this, then the result is a
webpage with following question:

wilt u http://www. CLICK -YES- TO PROCEDE @ameria.net/? als startpagina
instellen?

Anybody has an explanation?

Hugo

 

[Matt Coy]

Looks like the owner of yaho.com anticipated people misspelling yahoo and
had adware/spyware put on the site so people would click 'yes' when it asked
if they wanted to install software, and the yaho owner would undoubtedly
make money from the ad revenues.

I would install Spybot Search & Destroy from http://www.safer-networking.org
and do a scan of your computer to make sure you don't have a bunch of
spyware installed.

 

[Hugo]

Thank you for the information.

I have tested my computer and there seems to be no spyware.

I still have a problem with the PC (Windows XP home edition - I.E. with all
updates). A bit difficult to explain. My provider is Skynet. If I surf to
www.skynet.be, then I can ask for a new mailbox. It works with https: and a
login. No problem to open the https: pages and to login, but the last step
goes wrong: a message of 'server not found - page not found'. On the same
PC, with Netscape: no problem. I had some years ago a similar problem (one
https: page that I couldn't open) and then the problem came from a trojan
horse.

Websites connected with www.yaho.com are: artreality.com and artesia.net and
browsercleanser.com.


Hugo