turkey comes early

by certifiedbug on October 19, 2008

in Security

Someone thought it funny to put up a site called downloadmalware.com and offer a malware download. “I’m pretty sure it’s harmless”, he said.

The .exe was a malicious infection as pointed out by Alex at the Sunbelt Blog: A sick joke

Site Advisor, reviewer comments: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/downloadmalware.com/postid?p=1160990

IP Blocklist for Outpost Firewall. Calender Of Updates. (COU)

hpHosts. http://www.hosts-file.net/?s=Download&f=Partial

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/downloadmalware.com

Update
Google cache.

Oh boo, I ended up finding out thanks to The Sunbelt Blog that the malware I was handing out on downloadmalware.com was actually a quite harmful vondu …
www.lifeofahuman.com/ -

http://maru.lunarmania.com/suspended.page/

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