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Thread: Automatical redirection to a site that I don't know

  1. #1
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    Automatical redirection to a site that I don't know

    Hi,

    I'm Ubuntu user and at the moment worrying about the following incident:

    I was on YouTube when I accidentally mistyped the address www.youtube.com/... (was something like www.syoutube.com/...). Hereupon I was redirected to a site called "searchremagnifiedDOTcom" (I don't want anybody to accidentally click on the link, so I don't write it down)

    After that I started to catch up on that site, and entered its URL at http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
    The result can be seen under
    http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/...magnified.com/
    It has been blacklisted by some users of McAfee because of malware that's alledgly distributed by that site:
    http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/sea...ed.com/msgpage
    Google confirms this although they haven't blacklisted the site:
    http://safebrowsing.clients.google.c...emagnified.com

    So should I be worried? Should I reinstall everything?

    Kind regards

  2. #2
    Join Date
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    Re: Automatical redirection to a site that I don't know

    Thats a good question and first theng I would do is start searching the logfiles to see what if anything has happened or changed??

  3. #3
    Join Date
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    Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

    Re: Automatical redirection to a site that I don't know

    I mistyped youtube in the same way and got the redirect to that domain. It was a blank page, but I have scripts blocked. Those kinds of typosquat domains could serve anything, but my best guess is it's a page with a bunch of third party ad content. That is often a means of delivering malware to Windows systems, but the risk for a desktop Linux user is low.

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