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 Post subject: SurfTown: When a parking page is not just a parking page
PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:36 pm 
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There's two kinds of parking pages - the annoying kind, and the less annoying kind.

The annoying kinds are those such as dedicated parking servers, that shove sponsored rubbish in your face, should you go to a domain that used to exist, has just been created, or has been suspended or {insert some other reason here}.

The less annoying kind, are those with a plain page, and simple text telling you the site is parked, either because it's just been created, or because it's suspended. The less annoying kind however, as you've guessed since I'm writing about it - can be just as bad for your computers health, as a SurfTown customer will have found out.


http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2010/10/sur ... -just.html

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 Post subject: Re: SurfTown: When a parking page is not just a parking page
PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:17 pm 
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SurfTown: I'd suggest you move

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Okay, so Surftown (or the sites actual owner), have finally cleaned the first site I reported (simple-tea.dk), but what about the rest?

At the time of writing this, there are hundreds of sites on 212.97.132.0/24 (Surftown IP range), and SurfTown whilst having been notified of this by myself, and others, have yet to do anything to either suspend or cleanup the sites, let alone prevent it happening to any of their other customers sites (I can say this because the friend that notified me of these in the first place, keeps finding more of them).

What does this mean? Well it means, if you're a SurfTown customer - you've got major problems, the first of which is your site/server has likely been compromised. The second of which, and most important - is your host apparently doesn't care, they're getting your money.


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