[nsp-sec] fake av using fake review sites on 217.20.175.74

Smith, Donald Donald.Smith at qwest.com
Tue Mar 10 16:52:58 EDT 2009



http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic204619.html

"When we installed Anti-virus-1 in order to write our removal guide, we noticed that it added a series of entries into the Windows hosts file. These entries are:
O1 - Hosts: 217.20.175.74 www.review.2009softwarereviews.com
O1 - Hosts: 217.20.175.74 review.2009softwarereviews.com
O1 - Hosts: 217.20.175.74 a1.review.zdnet.com
O1 - Hosts: 217.20.175.74 www.d1.reviews.cnet.com
O1 - Hosts: 217.20.175.74 www.reviews.toptenreviews.com
O1 - Hosts: 217.20.175.74 reviews.toptenreviews.com"

whois -h whois.cymru.com 217.20.175.74
AS      | IP               | AS Name
15772   | 217.20.175.74    | WNET W-NET Ukraine


whois -h upstream-whois.cymru.com 217.20.175.74
PEER_AS | IP               | AS Name
2914    | 217.20.175.74    | NTT-COMMUNICATIONS-2914 - NTT America, Inc.
9002    | 217.20.175.74    | RETN-AS ReTN.net Autonomous System
10310   | 217.20.175.74    | YAHOO-1 - Yahoo!

Sure would be nice to have this one taken down.
I don't think wnet is represented here perhaps one of their upstreams could give them a clue stick:)

H8Hz
Donald.Smith at qwest.com gcia


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