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Dodgy and suspicous site, Keywebtracker

James652

Hi,

Today, I was on google images searching for images in size 1920x1200 ( Wasnt searching up anything porn related)

I clicked on an image, And imediatly I saw that it didn't go to the website it said it would in google images, it went to http://keywebtracker.com/back.php?kw=Beautiful+earth&label=cars .

I had typed in Earth into google images, But I dont remember searching up Beautiful or cars.

It had then redirected me to http://searchgreatcars.com/search.php?q=Beautiful%2520earth

I have been testing every posible meathod in attempt to see if I have a key logger.

Whilst I was browsing, I never got any message from Sophos Endpoint security and control 9.5 ( I own it legit )

I noticed that if you click on http://keywebtracker.com/back.php?kw=Beautiful+earth&label=cars now, It redirects you to a random eBlog or ad, I have only clicked it twice, though.

I am browsing with Google chrome. I am using Windows 7 Home Premium 64x

Help?

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    Hi,

    This sounds to me like standard tricky to get hits on a variety of sites.  They poison the Google results pages with results which when clicked on send you to a variety of different sites.  You can think of the back.php site as just a random site picker from probably a long list of sites.  It passes key words it seems (note the kw parameter, more than likely stands for "key words") so if the randomly picked has the ability to search it passes them on to make it more likely to generate content you're interested in clicking on.   Of course there is potential that some of the sites redirected to may well be infected malware but that is always a risk when visiting any site these days.

    I would be highly confident that the symptoms you have described are nothing to do with anything malicious on your machine.

    Hope that helps.


    Regards,

    Jak 

    :15717
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    Hi,

    This sounds to me like standard tricky to get hits on a variety of sites.  They poison the Google results pages with results which when clicked on send you to a variety of different sites.  You can think of the back.php site as just a random site picker from probably a long list of sites.  It passes key words it seems (note the kw parameter, more than likely stands for "key words") so if the randomly picked has the ability to search it passes them on to make it more likely to generate content you're interested in clicking on.   Of course there is potential that some of the sites redirected to may well be infected malware but that is always a risk when visiting any site these days.

    I would be highly confident that the symptoms you have described are nothing to do with anything malicious on your machine.

    Hope that helps.


    Regards,

    Jak 

    :15717
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