i was surfing the net when i had a typographical error of the site that i want to visit...instead of "babelfish.altavista.com" i accidentally typed "babelfish.alatavista.com"...it directed me to this site-> "megago.com/l/?" and a pop-up of e-mail something appeared in my desktop...i scanned my drives, no viruses where found...now the problem is, my pc here is connected to the main server of my company...if ever a virus or spyware and the likes will be detected, the server will be prompt...im just troubled...

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1869
You have hit a typo squatter... Check your cookies!

http://www.econsultant.com/spyware-d...egago-com.html

whois megago.com

Domain Name: MEGAGO.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Name Server: DNS.ZF.NET
Name Server: NS.ZF.NET
Name Server: NS2.WEBJUMP.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 10-oct-2006
Creation Date: 20-feb-1999
Expiration Date: 20-feb-2010

Registrant:
MegaGO.com Inc.
16192 Coastal Hwy.
Lewes, DE 19958
US


megago (Mega Go) seems to be part of Mega Web (megaweb.com)
... they seem to be some sort of directory service.
http://www.aboutus.org/Megaweb.com
http://www.aboutus.org/MeGago.com
... they seem to be pretty cagey, itself suspicious for business, is their name associated with any malware? Yes!

Windows users seem to be getting a lot of this kind of thing and there are special programs suggested for cookies... what, can IE not manage it's own cookies?

so it means that i clicked a virus site? omg...

i was using mozilla firefox...i had a typographical error...*sigh*...is it a spyware? is it dangerous? why the hell are they doing this? im using babelfish.altavista.com to translate japanese characters...i scanned my hard drives, but no viruses where found..T_T...

The question remains: why on earth do you surf the web with a machine not only connected to the internal network of your company, but to a main server too? hilarious. I bet if your boss knew, you had problems.

One of the top security rules in a company is to never ever never connect internal, important machines/network to the outside world, especially the internet. Violate that, especially with a Windows machine, and you're dead meat sooner or later, usually sooner.

... calm down and read the links I gave you. The malware is a cookie that tracks you through the internet. Look at your cookies

edit > preferences - privacy

uncheck "accept cookies from sites"
click "show cookies"

look for anything you don't recognize and remove it, or just remove all.

There, your clean. Exit the preferences dialog.

Aren't you glad you use linux?

BTW: what b0uncer said!

*sigh*...thanks dude! really appreciate the help.

No worries... what I hope you got from this is all that stuff about how to check out a website. Note, you got the owners name and address... in fact, you got more on them than they got on you!