lyricsfreak.com sometimes leads to an adbrite page. I found this out when I went to visit it a few minutes ago and NOD32 came up with:
SWF/TrojanDownloader.Gida.A trojan
Please people, start rating this site red. Adbrite is rated red, but Lyricsfreak should be rated that too.
Your correct.
Well lyricsfreak.com has always been suspicious since long time now and I have even used it sometime back and had a lot of PC hang problems.
I have rated it in red.
Thanks for bringing this issue into consideration.
Regards,
Anand.
Rating will infect your pc
Mmm...
If you want to rate it, your computer will be infected.
Yea, I just rated it red. As
Yea, I just rated it red. As long as you are using Firefox with adblock, you should be alright but not all people have that kind of setup and they shouldn't really have to either.
hm
when u click my ranking does that count as overall ranking?
RE: hm
It counts as overall of all users voted
Leaving a comment is a new possibility
WOT version 3 and the scorecard gives you now a possibility to leave feedback without visiting a page. We have received requests on making it possible to give feedback without landing on a dangerous site, and now you can do it. I made an example by copying DannyK's finding:
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/lyricsfreak.com
I see that Rob has also added his. You need to be a registered member to leave a comment, but anyone can view the scorecard pages. It is still imporatant to rate the site because comments do not directly influence the rating.
Heya
I don't see how you can change the rating on that page?
Clicking on the bars does not seem to do anything
You can only leave a comment, and the WOT plugin only lists mywot.com.
Re: Heya
You can rate websites using the add-on, which always shows you the rating for the current site.
Well rating malicious site
Well rating malicious site would require visiting said malicious site, thus exposing one's computer to possible danger. I can see the dilemma in that :)
Basically at current state WOT is not suited for rating sites that for example have exploits in place. Because, as Esa said previously, comments do not directly effect site's rating.
Re: Well rating malicious site
Yes, we know. I suppose it would be possible to let you rate sites on the scorecard in future, but we haven't really discussed this.
On the other hand, forcing you to actually visit a site before rating it makes it more likely that you confirm your suspicions instead of rating based on hearsay alone. It also helps in preventing users from accidentally rating the wrong site. For example, it's way more unlikely that you'll give a good rating to a typosquatter when using the add-on.
Some notes.
Q: How to safely visit dangerous site?
A: 1) Use safe browser. Usually this means: "do not use Internet Explorer". Try fresh versions of FireFox, Opera or Safary.
2) Disable JavaScript in your browser.
3) Use antivirus that supports browser-integration.
Q: What about lyricsfreak.com?
I'm not sure but I think this site was hacked recently. "Black" hackers usually do such things to get more computers for their botnets. My own site was infected few times in the same way until I recasted site's security policy.
@Alex Tracer
In context of my previous post here I do find your post rather irresponsible. Regular home user has no SAFE way of visiting malicious site. And by malicious I mean sites that have exploits in place. What you suggested are simply means of narrowing the window of vulnerability. Not forgetting up-to-date Java, Flash, QuickTime, Windows etc.
Better leave visiting active exploit sites to security professionals and to those advanced users who have solid understanding of what they are doing.
Another way to rate malicious sites.
There is also another way to rate a malicious site is using Adblock Plus, and I think there are very mush people using it. You can just add the following filter:
*This will block everything. Just add the filter, rate the site, go away from the site and remove the filter.